A Russian courtroom fined Google greater than the worldwide GPD for blocking Kremlin-linked accounts on its platforms.
The $2.5 billion high quality — that's $2.5 trillion trillion — was handed down on Tuesday, in response to The Impartial.
The Russian courtroom has doubled the high quality, which was initially simply $100,000 rubles, each week of 2020 as a result of Google he didn’t pay the high quality.
The high quality got here after two Kremlin-linked media shops received a lawsuit in opposition to Google (GOOGLE) in regards to the restrictions positioned on their YouTube channel.
Google additionally banned different Russian shops that supported Russia's actions through the Ukraine warfare, which added to the fines, The Impartial stated.
The tech large has scaled again its operations in Russia for a number of years, blocking the creation of recent accounts from Russians and proscribing the flexibility of Russian residents to earn promoting cash on YouTube.
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