German Minister: Facebook Should Be Treated as Media Company, Held Criminally Liable for Hate Speech

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German Minister: Facebook Should Be Treated as Media Company, Held Criminally Liable for Hate Speech

By CircleID Reporter
November 17, 2016, 6:47 pm PST Views: 7,769 Add Comment

Germany’s Justice Minister says Facebook should be treated like a media company rather than a technology platform, suggesting he favors moves to make social media groups criminally liable for failing to remove hate speech. Caroline Copley reporting from Berlin in Reuters: “Under a program that runs until March, German authorities are monitoring how many racist posts reported by Facebook users are deleted within 24 hours. Justice Minister Heiko Maas has pledged to take legislative measures if the results are still unsatisfactory by then. Maas has said the European Union needs to decide whether platform companies should be treated like radio or television stations, which can be held accountable for the content they publish.”

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