Russia slaps Telegram with another multi-million-ruble fine for refusing to take down ‘prohibited content’

Russia slaps Telegram with another multi-million-ruble fine for refusing to take down ‘prohibited content’

A Moscow court has fined the messaging service Telegram 4 million rubles (almost $50,000) for refusing to remove content prohibited under Russian law, according to the news outlet RBC. Officials didn’t specify what materials Telegram refused to censor. Since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has added numerous war-related speech offenses to its already long list of illegal online content.  Several weeks ago, Telegram was fi…