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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.

1 penalties · ≈ $358M imposed

1 penalty

Google · YouTube · 2022

Roskomnadzor's turnover fine over content removal

Under appeal

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.

RKN · Russia₽21.1B≈ $358M