Google and Meta (Facebook's parent company) have been sentenced to heavy fines in Russia

for failing to remove "banned" content

.

On the one hand, a Moscow court has imposed on Google the payment of some

86.3 million euros

(7.2 billion rubles).

The same court has sentenced Meta, Facebook's parent company, to pay

23.8 million euros

(1.9 billion rubles).

In a statement on its Telegram account, the press service of the Moscow courts specified that Google was found guilty of "recidivism", since the US giant did not remove content that was judged illegal in Russia from its platforms.

The court did not detail what content was involved.

"We are going to study the court documents to decide the measures to adopt," Google's press service told AFP, without adding anything else.

Russia routinely sanctions large digital companies accused of not deleting content that

advocate for drugs, suicide and related to the political opposition

.

However,

the fine against Google is so high that it is unprecedented

.

In October, the Russian telecommunications regulator, Roskomnadzor, threatened Meta with a fine of "between 5 and 10% of its annual turnover" from subsidiaries in Russia, which is equivalent to hundreds of millions of euros. euros.

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