Putin fines Google staggering $20 DECILLION – more than the entire world’s economy
Google has been fined in Russia for removing Russian TV channels from YouTube.
The tech giant was fined a staggering 20 decillion dollars which is more than all the money in the world. The company is facing claims from 17 Russian TV channels after banning their accounts on YouTube, which it owns, as a result of international sanctions.
Pro-Kremlin channels involved in the case reportedly include Russia 1 and the platform belonging to Russia Today presenter & Putin mouthpiece Margarita Simonyan.
According to news report, Google began accumulating daily penalties of 100,000 rubles in 2020 after the pro-government media outlets Tsargrad and RIA FAN won lawsuits against the company for blocking their YouTube channels.
Those daily penalties have doubled each week, leading to the current overall fine of around 2 undecillion rubles. Google, whose parent company Alphabet reported a revenue of more than $307 billion in 2023, is unlikely to ever pay the incredibly high fine.
