A Moscow court has ordered Viber and Telegram to pay fines for failing to delete information about Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. A magistrate court in the Russian capital ruled in separate hearings on June 20 that Telegram and Viber must pay 4 million rubles ($47,600), and 1 million ($11,900), respectively, for failing to delete "false information" about the war in Ukraine. The fines are the latest in a series of rulings in recent months against Google, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Telegram, and TikTok on similar charges that the social media platforms are not heeding Russia's Internet laws.
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