Duolingo, a language learning service, has removed materials containing LGBT* propaganda. The company notified Roskomnadzor about this.
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“The Duolingo company sent a response letter to Roskomnadzor, confirming that it had removed materials promoting non-traditional sexual relations from the educational application,” RKN told Interfax.
At the beginning of the year, the public organization Guardian was outraged by the “blatant LGBT* propaganda” in the educational service application. According to social activists, Duolingo materials can “traumatize the psyche of children.”
For example, organization members were dissatisfied with the mention of nontraditional couples. Thus, in one of the tasks, the students were asked to say out loud the phrases “they are gay” and “lesbian bar.” Roskomnadzor sent a warning to the company in April and the regulator also invited the service to conduct an independent audit.
Now the company has reported that it has removed materials that could be considered LGBT* propaganda.
The service was founded in 2011 by Louis von Ahn and Severin Hacker. After 10 years of operation, in 2021 the company entered the Nasdaq with $3.7 billion.
In early May it emerged that Russian online cinemas Wink and Kinopoisk, owned by Yandex, had drawn up protocols on LGBT* propaganda.
*LGBT is recognized as an extremist organization in the Russian Federation, its activities are prohibited.
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