The court fined Telegram 3.8 million rubles for not removing prohibited content.

The Tagansky court of Moscow imposed a fine of 3 million 800 thousand rubles on the Telegram messenger in connection with the failure to remove extremist content and information threatening minors.

The messenger was brought to administrative responsibility under Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation ("Failure by the site owner or the owner of an information resource on the Internet to delete information or pages"), RIA Novosti reports.

The court pointed out that the content threatening the safety of minors was discovered by Rosmolodezh employees, after which there was an appeal to Roskomnadzor. There was also extremist content in Telegram, which was also not deleted by the messenger on time.

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Also on May 27, the Tagansky Court of the capital fined the Telegram messenger 7 million rubles for not removing extremist content. On May 12, the Tagansky District Court imposed administrative fines of 3.8 million rubles on the Telegram messenger. The company was found guilty of late deletion of information in accordance with the requirements of Russian legislation under Part 4 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation.