MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is fining Twitter 10 million roubles ($136,173) for failing to delete content the government deems illegal, a Moscow court said on Thursday, the latest in a string of penalties against foreign technology firms.
Russia has slowed down the speed of Twitter since March as a punitive measure for posts containing child pornography, drug abuse information or calls for minors to commit suicide, communications regulator Roskomnadzor has said.
Twitter, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment, denies allowing its platform to be used to promote illegal behaviour.
($1 = 73.4360 roubles)
(Reporting by Anton Kolodyazhnyy and Alexander Marrow; Editing by Mark Potter)
