Content & Speech fines
Compliance with content-removal and platform-conduct orders.
These cases concern compliance with national content-removal rules and platform-conduct obligations. Enforcement and collection can be complicated by geopolitics, so headline amounts do not always translate into money actually paid.
2 penalties · ≈ $498M imposed
2 penalties
Google · YouTube · 2022
Roskomnadzor's turnover fine over content removal
Russia imposed a turnover-based fine on Google for repeatedly failing to delete content the government deemed banned, following an earlier 2021 penalty. Enforcement and collection were complicated after 2022, and the amounts are largely uncollected in practice.
X (Twitter) · 2025
X fined €120M in the first Digital Services Act penalty
The European Commission found three transparency breaches at X: the paid blue checkmark deceives users because anyone can buy verified status without being verified, the advertising repository is neither searchable nor complete, and researchers are blocked from the public data the DSA requires platforms to share.