(EFE). On Tuesday, the Russian Court of Justice imposed two fines on the Telegram messaging service with a total value of 11 million rubles, or about 175 thousand dollars, due to its refusal to remove the content at the request of the Russian authorities.
Russia’s official TASS news agency reported that the first fine, 4 million rubles or just over $63,000, was imposed on Telegram for its refusal to remove a bot that published personal data of Russian military personnel involved in a “special operation in Ukraine”.
The same ruling, issued by the 422nd Peace Court in Moscow, stressed that Telegram also refused to withdraw from its service channels that spread “false information” about Russian troop losses and call for anti-government demonstrations.
In another ruling from the same court, Telegram was ordered to pay a fine of 7 million rubles (just over 110,500 US dollars) for refusing to remove a channel that, according to the prosecutor’s office, had published instructions to sabotage railways in Russia and Belarus to disrupt it. “Special Operation” in Ukraine.
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