A court in Moscow fined Telegram 5 million rubles for failing to remove posts about the January protests

The magistrate of precinct 422 in Moscow fined the Telegram organization five million rubles under two protocols due to its refusal to remove posts about rallies in support of politician Alexei Navalny. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the Tagansky District Court.

The companies were imposed two fines of two and a half million rubles under the article on refusal to remove content, access to which is subject to restriction in accordance with the law (Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code).

Earlier today, a court in St. Petersburg fined VKontakte one and a half million rubles under the same article. Due to their refusal to remove content containing information about protests, Twitter was ordered to pay 8.9 million rubles and Group Mail.ru four million rubles. on VKontakte Also, a fine of one and a half million rubles has already been imposed .

On May 5, Roskomnadzor sent another 16 protocols to the court on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and Google due to failure to remove “prohibited information.”