Meta did not escape the court's ire.
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The man is Maxim Shemetov.
A Russian court imposed a $98 million fine on the company for failing to remove illegal content from its website. Friday's judgement marks the first time that the court has imposed fines based on a company's annual revenue, though Russia has tagged numerous tech companies with fines throughout the year for not following its increasingly restrictive internet content rules.
The Russian court fined Meta 2 billion roubles for similar offenses. Meta is accused of failing to remove around 2,000 banned items while Google is accused of failing to take down 2,600 pieces of illegal content. Drug use, dangerous behaviors, instructions for making improvised weapons and explosives, as well as anything regarding what and who it designates as extremists or terrorists are included in those posts. Apparently, the spreading of gay propaganda.
Before deciding how to proceed, the company will review the court documents. The company has 10 days to appeal.
This ruling is only the latest in Moscow's attempts to exert greater degrees of control over the internet as a whole, and it's going to get even worse when Russian authorities demand tech companies set up local server for their online services on January 1st.
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