The court in Moscow recovered 4.5 million rubles from Meta. at the suit of Russian bloggers – Kommersant

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow satisfied the class action lawsuit of a number of Russian bloggers against Meta (recognized as extremist in Russia and banned) and recovered 4.5 million rubles from the American company. This was reported to TASS by the founder of the council of bloggers, lawyer Valery Rytvina.

The lawsuit was filed in September 2022 by bloggers who invested in targeted advertising on Facebook (owned by Meta, banned in the Russian Federation) and now cannot use advertising accounts due to the company leaving Russia.

In December 2021, for repeated failure to remove prohibited information, a Russian court imposed on the Meta company, a negotiable fine of 1.9 billion rubles.

In February 2022, Facebook blocked the pages of several Russian state media outlets amid the Russian military operation in Ukraine. Roskomnadzor blocked Facebook and Instagram, and the Tverskoy Court of Moscow acknowledged Meta is an extremist organization. Later Meta was included to the list of extremists and terrorists of Rosfinmonitoring.

May 12, head of the Federal Bailiff Service Dmitry Aristov declaredthat Facebook paid off all court fines in Russia for enforcement proceedings.

Last November, a council of bloggers, coordinator of which is Ms. Rytvina, asked unblock Instagram and Facebook. Bloggers sent letters to President Vladimir Putin and Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.

Erdni Kagaltynov