On November 25, the Tagansky Court of Moscow found the Telegram messenger guilty of failure to delete prohibited information containing calls for extremist activities or materials with pornographic images of minors in accordance with Part 2 of Art. 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (failure by the site owner to delete information if the obligation to delete such information is provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation). The messenger was fined ₽7 million.
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This is not the first time the messenger has failed to comply with the requirements of Russian legislation. On October 30, the Tagansky Court of Moscow fined Telegram ₽4 million for failure to delete several channels whose authors posted content prohibited in the Russian Federation. Earlier in the same month, Telegram was already fined ₽4 million in Russia for an administrative offense under Part 2 of Art. 13.41 Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation.
For a similar offense, Telegram was also fined ₽4 million in August this year. In July, the Tagansky Court of Moscow fined the messenger ₽3 million for refusing to delete information prohibited in the Russian Federation. In November 2023, the messenger was fined ₽4 million for refusing to block prohibited content. In addition, in 2021, the messenger was fined several times for similar violations totaling RUB 9 million.
Over the past years, the largest Internet platforms, such as Apple, Google, Telegram, Facebook✴, Twitter, TikTok, and the Wikimedia Foundation, have been repeatedly held accountable in Russia for failure to remove prohibited content. This often happens due to the refusal of social networks and instant messengers to delete information that, in the opinion of the relevant departments, is unreliable.
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