A Russian court on Tuesday fined the collaborative online encyclopedia Wikipedia for two texts about the attack in Ukraine.
Russian news agencies reported that the Wikimedia Foundation would have to pay a fine of 2 million rubles (approximately €30,000/USD) for failing to remove these articles containing “false information”, according to the court.
“No one will delete” the two pages in question and the court’s decision “will be challenged in court,” said Vladimir Medeiko, director of the Wikimedia Foundation.
This is the third fine imposed on the Foundation in Russia since the start of the conflict in February this year.
Networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram were blocked in the country, and Google was ordered to pay 360 million euros for not deleting critical offensive content from YouTube.
In 2015, Wikipedia was briefly included in the list of sites to block for a text about charas, a cannabis strain. Russian law prohibits the online publication of information on the use of narcotics.
source: Noticias
