On Tuesday, a Moscow court fined the American news aggregator website Reddit more than $20,000 for failing to remove “prohibited information” in Russia, according to Efe.
According to the Spanish news agency, citing the Russian news agency Interfax, the American site was found guilty of violating Article 41 of the Russian Administrative Code, which punishes refusal to remove “inaccurate information aimed at destabilizing the socio-political situation in the country.” political situation”.
According to the case file, Reddit did not remove information about the Russian criminal movement AUE, which the Russian authorities consider extremist, nor “fake news” about the war in Ukraine.
AUE, an abbreviation for the slogan “The Prisoner’s Way of Life is One for All”, is an informal Russian association that promotes the subculture of criminal gangs, with a system of values and rules of behavior corresponding to organized crime.
In addition, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office accused Reddit of publishing “false information” about the war in Ukraine.
Reddit representatives and lawyers were not present at the hearing.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Russia has imposed heavy fines on major foreign computer companies, including Google, Facebook (banned in Russia), Twitter, TikTok and Wikimedia.