in a Russian court has sentenced the US Internet giant Google and the Facebook group Meta to unusually high fines.
The companies have repeatedly refused to delete "prohibited content", said the court in Moscow on Friday, according to the Interfax agency.
Accordingly, Google has to pay 7.2 billion rubles (the equivalent of 86.8 million euros) and Meta, which also owns the Instagram platform, around two billion rubles (24 million euros).
For the first time, the amount of the fine was based on the annual turnover of corporations in Russia.
Google wants to first read the judgment in detail and then advise on further steps, the company announced.
Like Facebook, Twitter and Tiktok, Google has been fined several times before.
Especially since the mass protests at the beginning of the year against the imprisonment of the Kremlin opponent Alexej Navalny, who has been in a prison camp for months, the Russian authorities have targeted social networks.
Criticism from network activists
You accuse the platforms of not consistently removing calls for unauthorized demonstrations, child pornographic content or calls for suicide.
Net activists, on the other hand, repeatedly criticize the procedure as repression against the free Internet in Russia.
State Duma information policy deputy chief Anton Gorelkin said that "very unpleasant measures" would be taken if fines did not help.