Russia Files Court Cases for Fines on Annual Turnover of Google, Meta

Russia Files Court Cases for Fines on Annual Turnover of Google, Meta
A 3D printed Facebook's new rebrand logo Meta is seen in front of the displayed Google logo in this illustration taken on Nov. 2, 2021. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters
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MOSCOW—Russia’s state communications regulator Roskomnadzor has filed cases against U.S. tech firms Google and Meta that could see fines imposed on their annual turnover in Russia, a Moscow court said on Friday.

Roskomnadzor in October threatened both Alphabet’s Google and Meta’s Facebook with fines based on a percentage of their annual turnover for a repeated failure to delete content that Moscow deems illegal.