{"id":42369,"date":"2021-05-12T17:43:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T14:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=42369"},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:54:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:54:38","slug":"vkontakte-and-telegram-fined-for-failing-to-delete-prohibited-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/vkontakte-and-telegram-fined-for-failing-to-delete-prohibited-information\/","title":{"rendered":"VKontakte and Telegram fined for failing to delete prohibited information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The social network VKontakte and the Telegram messaging app were fined for failing to remove data about unauthorised protests in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>VKontakte was fined 1.5 million rubles, the joint press service of the city courts said.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?14\" data-telegram-post=\"SPbGS\/8427\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Representatives of VKontakte said they disagree with the decision and intend to appeal it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abThe ruling once again demonstrates the enforcement practice of holding social networks to account and signals the tightening of internet regulation\u00bb, \u2014 said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/press\/comment-12-may\">\u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0438<\/a> by the company.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Telegram was fined a total of 5 million rubles, <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/obschestvo\/11356227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u0422\u0410\u0421\u0421 <\/a>\u0441\u043e \u0441\u0441\u044b\u043b\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u043d\u0430 \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0441\u0441-\u0441\u043b\u0443\u0436\u0431\u0443 \u0422\u0430\u0433\u0430\u043d\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0441\u0443\u0434\u0430. The company received two fines of 2.5 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier the court fined Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/russian-court-fines-twitter-8-9-million-rubles\">almost 9 million rubles<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/russian-court-fines-tiktok-2-6-million-rubles-in-the-wake-of-twitter\">TikTok for 2.6 million rubles<\/a> for refusing to delete information calling on minors to participate in an unauthorised protest.<\/p>\n<p>From February 1, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/experts-explain-how-russias-social-media-self-censorship-law-will-work\">amendments to Russian law<\/a> regulating the distribution of information on social networks came into force. Lawyers explained what the new rules mean and what consequences they carry:<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VKontakte social network and the Telegram messaging app were fined for failing to remove data about unauthorised protests in Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,1304,27,723,959],"class_list":["post-42369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-fines","tag-russia","tag-telegram","tag-vkontakte"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"32","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42371,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42369\/revisions\/42371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}