Russian court slaps Google, Meta with massive finesAP, MOSCOWA Moscow court on Friday slapped Google with a nearly US$100 million fine and also fined Facebook Inc’s parent company Meta Platforms Inc US$27 million over their failure to delete content banned by local law, as Russia seeks to step up pressure on technology giants. The Tagansky District Court ruled that Google repeatedly neglected to remove the banned content, and ordered the company to pay an administrative fine of 7.2 billion rubles (US$97.7 million). Google said that it would study the court documents before deciding on what its next step might be. Photo: AFPLater on Friday, the court also slapped a fine of nearly 2 billion rubles on Meta for failure to remove banned content. The firm might face further fines for failure to delete the banned content, the agency added.

Source: Taipei Times December 27, 2021 03:56 UTC