Moscow has increased pressure on Big Tech this year in a campaign
that critics characterise as an attempt by the Russian authorities to exert
tighter control over the Internet, something they say threatens to stifle
individual and corporate freedom.
Moscow's Tagansky District Court said Meta Platforms had
been fined a total of RUB 13 million in three separate administrative cases for
not deleting content. Twitter was fined 10 million roubles across two cases,
while TikTok received a 4 million rouble penalty, according to Russian news
agencies.
Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok had no immediate comment.
Meta, along with Alphabet's Google, faces a court case later
this month for suspected repeated violations of Russian legislation on content
and could be fined a percentage of its annual revenue in Russia.
Russia has slowed down the speed of Twitter since March as a
punitive measure for posts containing child pornography, drug abuse information
or calls for minors to commit suicide, communications regulator Roskomnadzor
has said.
Twitter denies allowing its platform to be used to promote
illegal behaviour.
Moscow has also demanded that 13 foreign and mostly US
technology companies set up in Russia by January 1 or face possible
restrictions or outright bans. All three companies fined on Thursday are on
that list. - Reuters
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