Russia Fines Meta Platforms Over ‘LGBT Propaganda’, Ifax Says

Russia Fines Meta Platforms Over ‘LGBT Propaganda’, Ifax Says
Meta logo is placed on a Russian flag in this illustration taken on Feb. 26, 2022. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters)
Reuters
4/26/2022
Updated:
4/26/2022

A Russian court on Tuesday fined Meta Platforms Inc. 4 million rubles ($54,030) for failing to delete posts that contained what it calls “LGBT propaganda,” the Interfax news agency reported.

A 2013 Russian law, decried by Western countries as state-enforced bigotry, bans the “promotion of non-traditional sexual relations to minors.”

Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

($1 = 74.0330 rubles)