The Tagansky District Court of Moscow on Thursday, December 23, fined Twitter 3 million rubles for failure to remove content prohibited in the Russian Federation.
The company was found guilty in an administrative offense under Part 2 of Art. 13.41 Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (“Violation of the procedure for restricting access to information, information resources”).
The total amount of Twitter fines increased to 66 million rubles.
On December 16, a magistrate court in Moscow fined Twitter 10 million rubles for failure to remove content banned in Russia.
Earlier, on November 25, it became known that the bailiffs opened six more cases against Twitter – on the enforced collection of 19 million rubles in fines.
On February 1, a law came into force in Russia, according to which social networks must themselves identify and block prohibited content. If they cannot independently assess the illegality of the content, the administration of the social network must send the data to Roskomnadzor within 24 hours.
Source: IZ
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