Russia to Fine Wikipedia If It Doesn’t Remove ‘False Information’ on Ukraine Invasion
Russia’s media regulator on Tuesday threatened to fine Wikipedia nearly $50,000 if the online encyclopedia doesn’t delete “material with inaccurate information” about its attack on Ukraine.
Roskomnadzor, the communications regulator, has accused Wikipedia of hosting “false information” on what Russia calls its “special operation” in Ukraine and on the actions of Russia’s military too.
“Recently, materials have been posted on Wikipedia that disseminates unreliable information on the subject of a special military operation in Ukraine,” Roskomnadzor said in a statement posted on Telegram. “Wikipedia should remove materials with unreliable information of public interest.”
“The authors of articles posted on Wikipedia deliberately misinform Internet resource users with frankly false information,” it said. “In the articles published, an exclusively anti-Russian interpretation of events is promoted.”
Larry Sanger, a co-founder of Wikipedia, warned last July that the online encyclopedia is “more one-sided than ever” and “with few exceptions, only globalist, progressive mainstream sources—and sources friendly to globalist progressivism—are permitted.”
According to Russian law, Roskomnadzor can fine administrators of an Internet resource by up to 4 million roubles ($48,120.30) if it fails to remove materials deemed illegal by Moscow, the regulator said.
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