A Moscow court recently ordered Google to pay a fine of 4 million rubles after YouTube videos were found to contain information deemed false about SVO, according to reports from TASS citing the court.
The court determined that Google violated Article 19.7.10-4 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, which addresses the responsibility of the owner of a social network for failing to comply with orders from a federal executive body that oversees media control and supervision. The sanction announced was a 4 million ruble fine, as stated by the court.
Earlier, the Moscow Tagansky Court levied an 800,000 ruble fine on Google for disseminating information prohibited for distribution in the Russian Federation. This included content restricted under Part 2 of Article 13.50 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, which covers materials related to illegal drug production, suicide methods, and pornographic content involving minors. The implicated video appeared on YouTube. While the court could have imposed the full 4 million ruble penalty, the sanctions issued were lower in that instance.
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