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Moscow has taken steps in recent months to regulate and curb the
power of social media and technology giants, imposing small
fines for content violations, while seeking to force foreign
firms to open offices in Russia and store Russians' personal
data on its territory.
Moscow's Tagansky District Court said it had issued Facebook
with fines totalling 6 million roubles for two different
administrative offences related to stipulations that website
owners delete banned information or face penalties.
Telegram was fined a total of 11 million roubles for three
different offences, the court said.
Facebook and Telegram did not immediately respond to requests
for comment.
Other countries have called upon social media firms to do more
to police content. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson last
week met with representatives of social media companies and
warned that they will face fines amounting to 10% of their
global revenues unless they get hate and racism off their
platforms.
A Russian court is expected later on Thursday to rule on two
similar accusations against Twitter, which has been subjected to
a punitive slowdown in Russia since March.
($1 = 73.7530 roubles)
(Reporting by Maxim Rodionov and Alexander Marrow; editing by
Andrew Osborn)
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