A Russian court recently announced that it had fined Google and Facebook Inc (FB.O) for failing to remove material that Moscow considers illegal, the latest development in an ongoing standoff between Russia and Big Tech.
Russia has also imposed a punitive slowdown on the US social network Twitter for failing to delete blocked content, as part of Moscow’s drive to reel in Western tech firms and strengthen its internet “sovereignty.”
Facebook was fined 26 million Roubles ($353,890) on eight separate charges, while Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google was forced to pay 6 million Roubles for three separate offenses, according to Moscow’s Tagansky District Court.
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