Telegram fined 7 million rubles for not deleting illegal content

Telegram fined 7 million rubles for not deleting illegal content

Telegram Messenger has been fined 7 million rubles ($67,300) by a Moscow court for refusing to remove information banned in Russia.

The court’s statement read, “Telegram was found guilty of committing an administrative offence for failing to restrict access to information when such restriction is required by Russian law.”

However, the court did not specify the prohibited information that led to the fine.

With approximately 900 million subscribers, the cloud-based cross- platform social media and instant messaging service is one of the world's leading messaging platforms and influential in Russia.