Court in Russia has recently mandated that Google owes approximately $20 decillion ($20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) in fines to Russian media networks for blocking their content, with the penalty potentially increasing further.
The fines against Google stem from its decision to remove Russian television channels from YouTube. Since the case was filed in Russia over four years ago, the penalty amount has soared to unprecedented levels.
“Google was called by a Russian court to administrative liability under Art. 13.41 of the Administrative Offenses Code for removing channels on the YouTube platform. The court ordered the company to restore these channels,” attorney Ivan Morozov informed the state media outlet TASS.
The violations reportedly cost Google a staggering 2 undecillion rubles, translating to around $20 decillion (a 35-digit figure), as cited by Morozov through the Russian news agency TASS.
To put this astronomical figure into context, the IMF estimates the total global GDP to be about $105 trillion, a 12-digit figure, which highlights the scale of this fine.
British tech publication The Register reported that this enormous fine was calculated following a four-year legal battle. The dispute began when YouTube banned the ultra-nationalist Russian channel Tsargrad in 2020, a move made in response to U.S. sanctions targeting the channel’s parent company.
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