A Moscow court has ordered the Telegram messaging app to pay a 4 million-ruble ($44,130) fine for failure to delete "banned information." The Taganka district court in the Russian capital pronounced its ruling on August 13 without saying what information Telegram failed to delete. The information about the court ruling appeared on the Telegram channel of the press service of Moscow's courts of common jurisdiction.
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