Twitter Accused of Breaking Law by Failing to Delete Content by Russia

Russia’s communications regulator accused Twitter on Monday of violating Russian regulation, saying the social media platform had not complied with a few of its requests to delete banned content material.

Roskomnadzor stated Twitter had did not delete 2,862 posts containing materials linked to suicide, pornography, and medicines since 2017. It might be fined closely it discovered responsible of repeatedly failing to delete content material deemed unlawful beneath Russian regulation, it stated.

The platform is used extensively by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and his allies to criticise the authorities and announce new protests.

Twitter has been fined up to now for breaching Russia’s knowledge legal guidelines, however the fines have up to now been comparatively small. It didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Russia in latest months has taken steps to exert extra affect over international social media platforms.

Payments handed by the decrease home of parliament in December final 12 months allowed Russia to levy massive fines on platforms that don’t delete banned content material and even limit entry to US social media giants in the event that they “discriminate” in opposition to Russian media.

The international ministry has additionally accused Fb and different US social media platforms of failing to establish faux posts associated to unauthorised protests in help of Navalny, the place police detained 1000’s of demonstrators nationwide.

In January, President Vladimir Putin queried what he described because the rising clout of US social media giants and stated their affect meant they now competed with governments.

Final month a Moscow courtroom fined Twitter for refusing to retailer its server holding knowledge about Russian residents on Russian territory.

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