Facebook removed 162 million content from its platform in the country in November. Giving this information, Meta said that this action was taken on the basis of 13 categories of violations. Meta also reported that 3.2 million content was removed from its photo-sharing platform Instagram. At the same time, Google received 26,087 complaints from users in the country in November, on the basis of which the company removed 61,114 content pieces from its platform.
According to the company in its monthly transparency report, Google also removed 3,75,468 content pieces in November 2021 on the basis of automatic detection. Some of these complaints were related to intellectual property rights violations, while others called for the removal of content on grounds such as defamation, Google said. During this time copyright, trademark, fraud and objectionable sexual material were also removed.
This allegation was made in Russia last month
Google, Twitter and Meta (Facebook) will face eight more legal complaints in Russia. It is alleged that the three internet media companies failed to remove the banned content from their platforms. A Moscow court has said that there are two cases against Google for not removing links and one for removing banned content. Google had to pay a fine of $52,000 in a similar case last year. Other cases are registered against Twitter and Facebook.
Russia fined
Earlier in August, a Moscow court had fined Alphabet Inc., Google Rs 40 lakh for violating Russia’s rules on banned content. At the same time, Russia in May imposed a fine of Rs 9 crore on US tech company Twitter for not removing banned content. Fines were fixed against him in six cases.
strict in september
In September, Russia made it mandatory for foreign Internet companies to open full-time offices in their country, taking strict steps towards controlling the Internet. Companies will have to collect data related to Russian citizens in their territory itself. Taking strictness, a Russian court fined American media companies Facebook and Twitter and messaging app Telegram for not removing illegal content. At that time, Facebook received a total of 2.1 million rubles (about Rs 2.12 crore) in five cases, Twitter in two cases totaled 5 million rubles (about Rs 50.49 lakh), and the messaging app Telegram also had a total of 90 million rubles (about Rs 90.88 lakh). fined.
In June this year, Russian authorities fined Facebook and Telegram apps for their alleged failure to remove banned content. A Moscow court fined Facebook 17 million rubles and Telegram 10 million rubles. Earlier on May 25, Russian authorities fined Facebook 26 million rubles for not removing content deemed illegal. At the same time, in April Telegram was fined 50 million rubles for not removing content that called for a demonstration.