On the evening of December 23, it was reported that Twitter was fined another 3 million rubles (approximately US$40,920) by the Russian court today for failing to delete content deemed illegal by the Russian government.
Last Thursday, Twitter was fined 10 million rubles (approximately US$136,000) by a Russian court for the same reason. In recent months, Russia has taken a series of measures to strengthen the supervision of American technology companies and restrict access to online information. For this reason, Apple, Google, Twitter and Facebook have all been punished to varying degrees.
So far this year, Twitter has been fined at least 50 million rubles (approximately US$682,000) in Russia. In this regard, Twitter has not yet commented. But Twitter has always denied that the company allows its platform to be used to promote illegal content.
In addition, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow announced today that in addition to Twitter, Microsoft’s software development website GitHub has also been fined 1 million rubles (approximately US$13,643) for the same reason that illegal content has not been deleted.