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A Moscow tribunal has ruled to enforce the postulation of fines from Facebook for breaching Russian laws connected amerciable content, officials said Thursday.
The Tagansky District Court successful Russia's superior ordered bailiffs to cod 26 cardinal rubles (over $361,000) pursuing Facebook's nonaccomplishment to wage the fines, court officials said.
Russian authorities communications watchdog Roskomnadzor has asked Russian courts to good Facebook for not deleting contented considered unlawful, including calls for unsanctioned anti-Kremlin protests.
The bureau has ordered Facebook to wage a full of 80 cardinal rubles ($1.1 million) successful fines truthful acold this year, and said the societal media institution hasn't paid any.
Roskomnadzor warned that it would enforce overmuch heftier fines adjacent to 5%-10% of Facebook's income turnover successful Russia implicit the unlawful content.
Russian authorities person methodically raised unit connected Western tech giants, including Twitter, Facebook and Google, implicit their roles successful amplifying voices of dissent. Authorities accused the platforms of failing to instrumentality down announcements for unauthorized protests.
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