A Russian court on Wednesday fined Googlefrom Alphabet, with 4.6 billion rubles (US$50.84 million) for not eliminating so-called “false” information about the conflict in Ukraine and other issues, the TASS news agency reported.
Moscow has disagreed with the foreign technology companies over content, censorship, data and local representation in a simmering dispute that intensified after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
The RIA news agency said the fine had also been imposed because Google had not removed “extremist content” and the distribution of what Russia calls “propaganda LGBT”.
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Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Russia calls the Ukraine conflict a “special military operation.” The Supreme Court of Russia ruled in November that the LGBT activists They had to be classified as “extremists”, in a move that gay and transgender representatives fear will lead to arrests and prosecutions.
Youtubealso from Alphabethas been a particular target of the Russian state’s ire, but, unlike Twitter and of Facebook and instagramby Meta Platforms, has not been blocked.
The fine was calculated as a part of the annual turnover of Google in Russia. Similar turnover-based sanctions, worth 7.2 billion rubles, were imposed on the company at the end of 2021, and in August 2022, worth 21.1 billion rubles.
($1 = 90.4825 rubles) (Reporting by Reuters in Moscow, Alexander Marrow; Additional reporting by Filipp Lebedev; Editing in Spanish by Ricardo Figueroa)
With information from Reuters
Source: Gestion
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