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Telegram Messenger has been fined four million rubles (41,400 U.S. dollars) by a Moscow court for refusing to delete information banned in Russia.
According to the court press service, Telegram was found guilty of committing an administrative offence for failing to “remove information when such removal is required by Russian law.
The court did not specify the prohibited information that led to the fine.
Telegram was in August 2024, fined four million rubles for a similar offence.
With approximately 900 million subscribers, Telegram is now one of the world’s leading messaging platforms and influential in Russia.
Telegram fined for failing to delete banned content