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MOSCOW, May 19. Protocol against WhatsApp (owned by Meta, whose activities are banned in Russia as extremist) for refusing to remove prohibited content was registered in a global court district Tagansky district of Moscow, the court reported.
“A protocol has been registered against WhatsApp LLC, drawn up under Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation,” the agency’s interlocutor said.
Under this article, for refusal to remove prohibited information, the company faces a fine of up to 4 million rubles. The date for the consideration of the protocol has not yet been set.
There is no data about what kind of information in question and where it was placed. Earlier, the messenger was fined twice for 4 and 18 million rubles for refusing to localize the personal data of Russian users in the Russian Federation.
After the start of the special operation in Ukraine, Meta Platforms*, in the light of the events, temporarily lifted on Facebook* and Instagram* the ban on calls for violence against the Russian military, «but not against the civilian population of the Russian Federation.» After that, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation raised the issue of recognizing Meta* as an extremist organization, and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on public calls for extremism and assistance to terrorism. and banned in Russia access to her social networks Instagram* and Facebook*. The solution does not imply punishment for users for bypassing locks. As for WhatsApp, although it is owned by Meta*, its operation is not banned in Russia.
*Meta (social networks Facebook and Instagram) is banned in Russia as extremist