A Russian court fined Facebook roughly $200,000 and Twitter a similar amount for multiple violations of Russia's 2014 data storage law, which requires foreign companies to store data on Russian users in Russia, while WhatsApp was handed a roughly $55,000 fine for a first-time infraction, the Moscow Times reported Aug. 26, citing an announcement made by the country's internet watchdog Roskomnadzor.

Twitter and Facebook do not have representative offices in Russia, which has increasingly made them a target for Russian authorities. Both companies were fined for the same offense in 2020, but Facebook paid its fine while Twitter did not, which led to the slowing down of Twitter’s traffic in March 2021.