The Taganovsky District Court of Moscow has decided to find TikTok…
The Taganovsky District Court of Moscow has decided to find TikTok Pte Ltd guilty of an administrative offense under Part 2 of Article 13.50 of the Code on Administrative Offenses (failure to fulfill obligations as owner of a social network) and imposed a fine in the amount of three million rubles.
Consensus
- TikTok was fined by a Moscow court for not removing LGBT-related content
- The fine amount was initially reported as 3 million rubles and later corrected to 3.5 million rubles
- LGBT movement is banned in Russia
Points of divergence
- TikTok was fined for not removing two specific videos containing LGBT propaganda — vm
- The fine amount was 3.5 million rubles, not 3 million rubles — interfax
Coverage (2 sources)
- Moscow Court Fines TikTok 3 Million Rubles for Refusal to Remove LGBTQ+ Content — Вечерняя Москва
- Moscow court fines TikTok 3.5 million rubles — Интерфакс