Russian court fines Twitter for failure to remove illegal content
A court in Russia fined Twitter about $259,000 for its failure to remove banned content, including calls for unauthorised protests, increasing fines on the company to $380,000
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A local court on Thursday fined Twitter 19 million rubles (about $259,000) for its failure to remove banned content, including calls for unauthorised protests, increasing fines on the company to 27.9 million rubles ($380,000).
Twitter was fined 8.9 million rubles (121,000 dollars) in early April for the same offense, the Xinhua news agency reported.
On Tuesday, a Moscow court fined Facebook and Google on similar charges.
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