A Moscow court on Friday imposed an unprecedented heavy fine on Google for repeated failures to remove illegal material. Russian authorities have also put pressure on foreign tech giants, but the court has imposed a fine for not following it. Telegram is said to have been fined 7.2 billion rubles ($98 million, 86 million euros) by the court's press service.
According to media reports, Russia has recently fined the world's largest tech companies for not moderatetheir content properly and interfering in the country's cases.
However, Meta Facebook, Twitter, Google (Meta(Facebook), Twitter, Google) and other foreign tech giants have been fined not in bilions but up to millions rubles. Media reports say the fine amount was fixed on the basis of the percentage of annual income of the Google. Meta who is soon to be heard in court on the same charges. He has also been warned of revenue-based fines.
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