Facebook pays fines to Russia over banned content
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Facebook has paid 17 million roubles ($229,643) in fines owed in Russia for failing to delete content Moscow deems illegal, the Interfax info firm reported on Sunday, nonetheless with the specter of a in all probability greater large looming.
Facebook mom or father Meta, along with Alphabet’s Google, faces a court docket docket case subsequent week for suspected repeated violations of Russian legal guidelines on content and will presumably be fined a proportion of its annual revenue in Russia.
Facebook did not immediately reply to a request for contact upon Sunday.
Russia in October despatched state bailiffs to implement the gathering of 17 million roubles in fines imposed on Facebook. Interfax talked about there have been no additional enforcement proceedings in opposition to the company as of Sunday, citing the federal bailiff service’s database.
Moscow has elevated …