MOSCOW. July 19 (Interfax) - A magistrate court in Moscow has registered an administrative offence report against the U.S. company Reddit Inc. on holding it administratively liable for the first time for failing to delete information banned in Russia.
"The court has received an administrative offence report in relation to Reddit Inc. compiled for an administrative offence it has committed," the court told Interfax.
The social network is facing a penalty for failing to delete "knowingly false information on the USSR's actions during WWII, discrediting the Russian Armed Forces, and [circulating] other extremist information," it said.
The company is facing a fine of up to four million rubles for failing to delete information banned in Russia.