MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has fined Twitter, Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms, and TikTok for failing to remove content deemed illegal by authorities, a Moscow court said on Thursday.
Russian authorities have stepped up their pressure on major social media this year as part of a campaign seen by critics as an attempt to exercise tighter control over the internet, which they say could pose a threat to the internet. individual and corporate freedoms.
Meta Platforms was fined a total of 13 million rubles (156,220 euros) in three separate cases, said the Taganski court in Moscow.
Twitter will have to pay a fine of 10 million rubles in two cases and TikTok a fine of 4 million rubles, according to Russian news agencies.
Twitter, Facebook and TikTok did not immediately comment.
(Report Alexander Marrow, Anton Kolodyazhnyy and Vladimir Soldatkin; French version Claude Chendjou, edited by Sophie Louet)
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