WhatsApp faces a maximum fine of 4 million rubles ($2.5 million) after Russia’s government accused the app of failing to delete content deemed banned, the country’s state news agency RIA reported on Friday. (19).
While WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, was banned from Russia last year as an “extremist” organization, the messaging app, which is hugely popular in the country, has not previously been threatened with legal action for failing to remove prohibited data.
RIA did not specify what information WhatsApp allegedly did not delete. According to the news agency, the administrative process was opened by the communications regulator Roskomnadzor.
At the start of the war against Ukraine, Russia passed tough military censorship laws under which tech companies including Google, Wikipedia and Discord were fined.
Source: CNN Brasil
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