Facebook and Instagram have not removed more than 2 thousand materials with prohibited information, this threatens with new turnover fines. This was announced on Friday, December 24, at Roskomnadzor.
“At the moment, more than 2 thousand materials on Facebook and Instagram have not been deleted. In total, in 2021, Roskomnadzor drew up 23 protocols, the amount of fines assigned by the court was 83 million rubles. Google has more than 2.6 thousand non-deleted materials, 21 protocols were drawn up in 2021, the amount of fines is 51.5 million rubles, ”the press service said.
It is noted that the presence of unreleased illegal materials, on which the court decisions have already entered into force, provides for the re-engagement of companies under Part 5 of Art. 13.41 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (“Repeated violation of the procedure for restricting access to information, access to which is subject to restriction in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation”) with the imposition of turnover fines.
Earlier on Friday, a magistrate court in Moscow found Meta Platforms (Facebook) guilty of an administrative offense and imposed a turnover fine on the company in the amount of more than 1.9 billion rubles.
Also on Friday, the magistrate’s court ruled to fine Google 7.2 billion rubles for failure to remove prohibited information.
On February 1, a law came into force in Russia, according to which social networks must themselves identify and block prohibited content. In the absence of an opportunity to independently assess the unlawfulness of the content within 24 hours, the administration of the social network must send the data to Roskomnadzor.
Source: IZ
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