Russia demands YouTube remove misleading information about Corona

Russia has demanded the YouTube platform to delete what it described as false information related to several topics, including the Corona pandemic.

Moscow – Sputnik. Today, Sunday, the Russian media censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, said that YouTube is ignoring the demands to delete videos containing false information about the Corona virus and other topics, “revealing that it has sent to the administration of the search engine “Google” more than 24,000 requests in total to remove banned content from the service. However, about 5,000 prohibited items, many of which contain content from extremist or terrorist organizations, have not been removed yet.

The agency also demanded that Google “unblock a video clip on the YouTube channel of Russian MP, journalist Alexei Pushkov, where the video hosting service deleted an episode of a TV show hosted by it.”

At the end of last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed that the Russian authorities do not plan to block foreign social networks, but the problem is that they do not comply with the requirements and Russian laws. He said that foreign social networks spread child pornography or instructions about suicide, or how to make Molotov cocktails, for example, noting that Russian demands were ignored in that regard.

The Russian president noted that Russia insists that international platforms open full representative offices for it in the country, which are legal entities with which one can at least have a dialogue.

Earlier, the Tagansky Court in Moscow imposed fines in the millions on Google, Facebook and Telegram, noting that the minutes against Twitter and other social networks related to posts calling for unauthorized protests. out.

From February 11 to March 1, 2021, the communications watchdog in Russia “Roskomnadzor” issued minutes regarding the publication of content on the Internet that incites minors to engage in illegal activities. The authority announced its intention to impose fines against the backdrop of publishing prohibited content on the social networks “Tik Tok”, “Vkontakte”, “Odnoklassniki”, “Facebook”, “Twitter” and “YouTube”.

A Moscow court sentenced the Russian media group, Mail.ru Group, to pay a fine of 4 million rubles (approximately 54.4 thousand dollars); For its failure to remove content on the Odnoklassniki communication site, it invites minors to engage in unauthorized acts.