Moscow court fines Twitter three times in a single day as Russia’s showdown with social-media giant over illegal content continues

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California-based social networking site Twitter will be forced to shell out more than a hundred thousand dollars in fines, after a Russian court ruled that it had breached its obligations to delete material banned in the country.

A judge handed the company three separate penalties, totaling 8.9 million rubles ($116,800) on Friday. The Moscow Court found that the service was guilty of breaching the terms of Russia’s administrative code by failing to delete material flagged by authorities.

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