A Moscow court on December 20 fined Alphabet's Google more than 4.6 billion rubles ($50.8 million) for the "systemic failure" to delete from YouTube what the court said was false information about Moscow's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The YouTube materials in question are reports about Russian losses during the full-scale aggression against Ukraine that started in February last year and casualties among Ukrainian civilians. In addition to that, the Taganka district court said Google refused to delete videos on YouTube that "propagate nontraditional sexual relations."
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