A Russian court has fined Alphabet’s Google 4 billion roubles ($47 million) for failing to pay an earlier fine over alleged abuse of its dominant position in the video hosting market, the country’s anti-monopoly watchdog said on Tuesday.
Google was fined 2 billion roubles in February 2022. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) at the time said Google’s YouTube had a “non-transparent, biased and unpredictable” approach to “suspending and blocking users’ accounts and content,” the TASS news agency reported.
Google ultimately appealed that decision. The U.S. company did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment on Tuesday.
The FAS said the previous fine it imposed on Google had been doubled due to non-payment….