Russia obliges online news aggregators to publish only reliable info

MOSCOW, Jan 9 (PRIME) -- Internet news aggregators, with daily traffic exceeding 1 million users, in Russia must distribute only truthful information starting from January 1, as stipulated by a law signed by President Vladimir Putin in late June 2016.

Owners of news aggregators, who can be only Russian companies or the country’s citizens, must check authenticity of socially important information prior to its distribution and delete it upon a request from the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media.

The aggregators will not be liable for distribution of the information directly quoted from mass media.

Services must store for six months the information they disclose, information on sources and a period of publication. The communications authority, which keeps a register of news aggregators, must have access to these data.

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