A court in Moscow on Tuesday imposed a fine of four million rubles, 52 thousand euros, on the digital platform Twitch, owned by the American company Amazon, for “refuse to remove false information” about the military campaign in Ukraine.
The Taganski Court judge found Twitch guilty under Article 41 of Russia’s Code of Administrative Misconduct, which punishes entities that refuse to “remove unreliable information that may cause instability in the country’s socio-political situation.” , indicates this Tuesday to the Interfax office.
On October 18, 2021 and in October last year, the same court had already sentenced Twitch to a similar fine after publishing interviews with Oleksiy Arestovich, a Ukrainian analyst who was an adviser to the head of state of Ukraine.
Last June, Twitch was also fined two million rubles, about $35,000, for failing to store Russian users’ personal data on servers in Russia, as stipulated by a law passed in Moscow in 2015.
Source: DN
