What’s happened?
A Russian court is upset with Google and has demanded it pays rather a large fine: $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000.
How many zeroes is that?
Thirty four. It’s a trillion times a trillion times a trillion – also known as a decillion (yes, we had to look it up).
What has Google done wrong?
It started to remove several Russian state media channels from YouTube in 2020, and banned more following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, accusing them of “denying, minimising, or trivialising” the war. It affected leading outlets like Russia Today (RT, pictured) and Sputnik, and initially applied only in the EU, before covering all countries.
Can Google afford it?
Nobody can afford it. The fine is more than the amount of money available in the world, estimated…