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This was reported by the press service of the lower house of the national parliament.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the first reading a bill on criminal liability for libel on the Internet, which also generally toughens penalties for such statements.

The Presidium of the Commission for the Development of Production and Distribution of Domestic Audiovisual Content, approved the list of domestic applications that must be preinstalled on all smart TVs sold in Russia.

More than half of the fake news in the past year was related to the topic of the coronavirus pandemic. More precisely, about 60 percent of such news were registered.

On December 9, the FTC, along with attorneys general from 46 states and two counties, filed a lawsuit against Facebook. The authors of the complaint are confident that Facebook adheres to a special strategy and, with its help, maintains a personal monopoly on the social media market.

Six-year-old Anastasia Radzinskaya from Krasnodar for the second time entered the ten highest paid bloggers on YouTube according to Forbes

The Coursera educational platform has compiled a list of courses that users have most often signed up for in the past year.

It became known about the blocking of another official Instagram account of the Russian media.

An application that combines sites with free access will be included in the list of domestic software products that will be preinstalled on smartphones, tablets, computers and TVs with Smart TV function.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, commenting on publications about Russian intelligence officers allegedly involved in the "poisoning" of Alexei Navalny, said that no one needs a "Berlin patient" to poison him.

The Russian social network VKontakte and the Telegram messenger created by its co-founder Pavel Durov were included in the European Commission's "Counterfeit and Piracy Watchlist.

“The Biden-Harris ticket represents something historic,” the edition explained in a statement posted on December 10.

The results of computer tests were published in the journal Science.

This is stated in a commentary circulated on Friday.

The European Union has prepared a new data management regulation, which may complicate the work, including for Russian companies.