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.
According to open sources, the company is headquartered in San Francisco.
Reddit is a website combining the features of a social network and a forum, where registered users can post web links and discuss and rate online content.
Since the start of 2021, Russia has imposed fines amounting in total to over 200 million rubles on a number of major online services, including Google, Telegram, Facebook (banned in Russia), TikTok, and others, for failing to delete content banned in the country.
Russian courts have also imposed turnover-based fines on Meta (designated as extremist and banned in Russia) and Google for repeated violations of Russian law. In particular, courts have fined Meta nearly two billion rubles and Google more than 28.9 billion rubles.