“The court found Twitter guilty under Part 2 of Art.
13.41.
Administrative Code of Russia ("Violation of the procedure for restricting access to information, access to which is subject to restriction in accordance with Russian legislation") and imposed a penalty in the form of a fine in the amount of 3.2 million rubles, "the court told TASS.
Earlier, Roskomnadzor drew up protocols on an administrative offense in relation to social networks Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, the Telegram messenger, as well as the YouTube video hosting service for failure to delete or untimely deletion of information that involved teenagers in taking part in unauthorized actions.
On March 10, the department began to slow down the speed of Twitter on all mobile gadgets and 50% of stationary devices.
As explained in the department, this is due to the company's systematic violation of laws regarding the placement of prohibited content.
The social network was notified of the possibility of a complete blocking in case of ignoring the requirements.