the courier service WhatsApp faces a maximum fine of 4 million rubles ($51,500) after what Russia accused him of failing to remove prohibited content, state news agency RIA reported on Friday, citing a court of Moscow.
Although the parent company of WhatsApp, Meta Platforms Incwas banned last year in Russia for being one “extremist organization”the messaging application -very popular in that country- had not previously been threatened with legal proceedings for not removing prohibited information.
The report of ESTUARY it did not specify what information it had not removed WhatsApp. The administrative case was filed by the communications regulator Roskomnadzor.
At the beginning of his military campaign in Ukraine, Russia introduced tough new military censorship laws under which tech companies like Google, Wikipedia and Discord.
The messaging app of the Zuckerberg empire
On February 19, 2014, mark zuckerberg the creator of Facebook announced in his personal profile the purchase of the mobile application WhatsApp for a total amount of US$19 billion, and clarified that his decision sought to “expand the number of users on Facebook.”
The denomination of WhatsApp It comes from a play on words in the English language. In this language, the expression “What»s up?” is used, which can be translated as “What’s new?” or “How are you doing?”. In addition, the word is used “app” to refer to a “application” (ie, to an application).
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