Russia fines Google for Ukraine videos
On Thursday, a Russian court fined Google a series of fines for failing to remove problematic YouTube videos about the war in Ukraine.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (TASS)
On Thursday, a Russian court fined Google a series of fines for failing to remove problematic YouTube videos about the Kremlin's military operation in Ukraine.
The US tech giant was fined by a Moscow court to pay a total of $135,000 for failing to comply with the state media regulator's instructions to delete articles and videos citing massive Russian losses in Ukraine.
According to Russian official news outlets, one of the tapes featured a purported phone conversation between Russian servicemen and their families back home in which the troops lamented about several losses in their ranks.
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Another said that soldiers attempting to withdraw from Ukrainian counter-offensives were being shot by retreat-blocking Russian detachments, according to official media accounts.
Last month, the Tverskoy district court of Moscow ruled to ban Facebook and Instagram in Russia for inciting violence and extremism, according to a Sputnik correspondent.
A Moscow district court told Sputnik that it had received a statement from the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia calling for recognizing Meta as an extremist organization.
Meta had two weeks ago permitted its users to incite violence against the Russians and Russian soldiers on its social media platforms in light of Moscow's special military operation in Ukraine.
Amid the wave of anti-Russian narrative spewing from the West, YouTube blocked Russian news outlets, such as RT and Sputnik, globally, and later, Moscow accused it of spreading threats against Russian citizens.
