MADRID, 4 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
A court in the Russian capital, Moscow, has fined the TikTok social network three million rubles (about 51,400 euros) for not removing LGBT content and promoting this group among the underage population.
According to the Justice, the short video platform has breached part of article 2 of the Russian Code of Administrative Offenses by not removing content indicated by Russian legislation, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
The social network is accused of promoting “non-traditional values, LGBT, radical feminism and a distorted representation of traditional sexual values”, based on a protocol drafted by the Russian media regulatory authority, Roskomnadzor.
Since 2021, the Russian Justice has fined TikTok more than eleven million rubles (more than 188,200 euros) for refusing to remove information and content prohibited by law.
In recent months, the Russian regulatory authority has intensified the persecution of content that violates Russian law, especially on social networks such as Twitter, Facebook or Telegram for hosting allegedly false information about the war in Ukraine.
