Facebook was fined 26 million rubles for refusing to remove “prohibited information”

A magistrate at court precinct No. 422 in Moscow fined Facebook 26 million rubles for refusing to remove “prohibited information” at the request of Roskomnadzor. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the Tagansky District Court.

The judge reviewed eight protocols on the social network (Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code); for two the fine amounted to four million rubles, and for the other six - three million.

Roskomnadzor reported that administrative cases were opened due to the fact that Facebook , like several other large social networks, did not delete or “not promptly” deleted information that “involved teenagers” in participating in rallies.

In mid-May, the department drew up on Facebook four more protocols on this article ; they will be reviewed on June 10.

After the January protests, Roskomnadzor demanded that social networks remove posts announcing protests. For this reason , Twitter fined 8.9 million rubles , Google 6 million rubles , Telegram 5 million rubles , Odnoklassniki 4 million rubles , TikTok was 2.6 million rubles , and VKontakte 1.5 million. rubles _

traffic due to claims of selective content removal In March, Roskomnadzor began slowing down Twitter . After negotiations management, with Twitter the department left the traffic slowdown only on smartphones and threatened similar restrictions on YouTube and Facebook .