A Moscow court said Monday it had ordered Alphabet’s Google to pay $52,526 for failing to remove access to banned content in Russia, the latest in a string of fines for the US tech giant.
Russia upped the ante in its late last year Efforts to increase pressure on big tech companies and imposed massive revenue-related fines on Google and meta-platforms for their repeated failure to remove content Moscow deems illegal. Google declined to comment.
The TASS news agency reported that Google was fined for providing links to banned websites.