(Reuters) – A Russian court has fined Google and Twitter 3 million rubles ($41,000) each on the grounds that U.S. companies refused to remove content deemed prohibited in the country, the Interfax news agency reported on Thursday. market.
The fine was imposed after Twitter failed to remove content from its social network that includes posts with instructions on assembling Molotov cocktails, Interfax said, citing the court.
Earlier, the court had fined Google after the company’s refusal to remove content from YouTube.
