Russian court fines Wikipedia over military misinformation

March 1, 2023

The Wikimedia Foundation was fined 2 million roubles ($27,000) by a Russian court on Tuesday after it failed to delete misinformation about the Russian military from Wikipedia, the reports said. Wikimedia, which owns Wikipedia, was already fined last year after it failed to delete two articles related to the war, including one on “evaluations of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine”. The latest fine was imposed after the authorities accused Wikipedia of spreading misinformation in articles about Russian military units, Wikimedia Russia said.

 

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