A Moscow court on Tuesday fined TikTok more than $30,000 for failing to delete posts calling for minors to join unsanctioned protests in support of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
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The court said on its Telegram channel that the video-sharing platform had been found guilty of failing to remove information that violates Russian law and sentenced to an administrative fine of 2.6 million rubles ($34,000).
The ruling comes as Russia ramps up pressure on foreign tech platforms, with a Moscow court also hitting Twitter on Friday with three fines totalling 8.9 million rubles ($116,700) for the same violation as TikTok.
In January, authorities accused foreign social media platforms including TikTok and Twitter of interfering in Russia’s domestic affairs by not deleting calls to rallies in support of Navalny late that month and early February.
Russia’s media watchdog Roskomnadzor said last month it would draw up protocols demanding the foreign social media platforms be fined for failing to delete the calls after it had warned them to do so.
Roskomnadzor described the calls to protests as “inciting teenagers” to take part in “illegal activities”, or “unauthorized mass events”.
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