Twitter and Facebook have contested fines for not deleting content. Since the beginning of the year, companies in Russia have been fined a total of 82 million rubles

Twitter and Facebook have challenged the fines imposed by the Justice of the Peace for not removing the content prohibited in the Russian Federation in the appellate instance. About this “Interfax” reported in a court. The date of the court hearings has not yet been set.

On July 22, the magistrate of the judicial district No. 422 of the Tagansky district of Moscow fined Facebook 6 million rubles under two protocols for not removing prohibited content. The representatives of the companies did not come to court, the case was considered without them.

In May, the court fined Facebook under eight protocols 26 million rubles for failure to remove prohibited content, in June – another 17 million rubles. Since the beginning of the year, Facebook has been fined a total of 49 million rubles.

Under the same article, on the same day, July 22, the Moscow Magistrates’ Court found Twitter guilty and imposed a fine of 5.5 million rubles. Prior to that, the company was also fined several times and the total amount of fines received by Twitter since the beginning of this year amounted to more than 33 million rubles.

In the spring, Roskomnadzor announced plans to impose fines for failing to remove calls for teenagers to go to uncoordinated actions on TikTok, Vkontakte, Telegram, Odnoklassniki, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Most of the protocols were reviewed by the courts. The claims to the companies are also related to the refusal to localize the data of Russian users on the territory of Russia.

Currently, a number of administrative protocols against Facebook and Twitter are under consideration by the magistrate’s court, under which they face fines of up to 18 million rubles.