The Tagansky District Court of Moscow has once again fined Facebook, Twitter and Telegram for not removing prohibited content. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
Facebook companies imposed a fine of 21 million rubles under the article on violation of the procedure for access to information (parts 2 and 4 of article 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Under the same article, Telegram was fined 9 million, Twitter - 5 million.
The total amount of fines from Twitter in Russia is more than 45 million, from Telegram - 35 million, from Facebook - more than 90 million.
- On March 10, Roskomnadzor slowed down Twitter due to the failure to remove prohibited content. The regulator pointed to three thousand publications that the social network has not erased since 2017. The agency also said that it does not rule out a complete blocking of Twitter.
- Roskomnadzor regularly files lawsuits against Google , Facebook and Twitter . In May, the department filed the first lawsuit against the company in connection with the requirement to remove 12 links to YouTube with calls for participation in January actions in support of Alexei Navalny. On May 25, the court fined Google four million rubles for the first time.