MOSCOW (NEWSnet/AP) — A Russian court has imposed fines on Apple and the host of Wikipedia for failing to remove material it deemed to be “false information” about Russia’s military actions in Ukraine.

A justice of the peace in a magistrate's court on Thursday fined the Wikimedia Foundation 3 million rubles ($33,000) for retaining material on Russian-language Wikipedia pages that violated a law against discrediting Russia's military and spreading false information about the Ukraine conflict, the Interfax news agency reported.

The same justice found Apple guilty of failing to delete podcasts and apps with such information and fined the company 400,000 rubles ($4,400).

Since sending troops into Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has enacted an array of measures to punish any criticism or questioning of its military campaign.

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