A Russian court has fined Google 4 billion rubles ($47 million) for failing to pay an earlier fine over alleged abuse of its dominant position in the video-hosting market, the country's anti-monopoly watchdog said on June 27. The decision is the latest multimillion dollar fine in Moscow's increasingly assertive campaign against foreign tech companies. The initial fine in February 2022 was based on claims that Google's YouTube had a "biased and unpredictable" approach to "suspending and blocking users' accounts and content," TASS reported. YouTube has blocked Russian state-funded media globally since the start of the invasion of Ukraine. To read the original story by Reuters, click here.
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