In October, a German prosecutor launched an investigation into three Facebook managers for allegedly “ignoring racist posts.”
In November, Germany launched yet another, similar investigation...into European head of Facebook Martin Ott, Facebook’s managing director for northern, central and eastern Europe...The prosecution said last month that Ott may be held responsible for his employer’s failure to remove hate speech...
Twitter, for its part, gave up a separate fight to protect racist users in July, agreeing to unmask posters of racist content on its French service when ordered by a Paris court to hand it over.
Maas told reporters on Tuesday that the deal with the [these] companies will ensure that the companies adhere to German law when policing hate speech, rather than their own internal policies.
~Sophos.com
YES, SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES CAN BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CONTENT. READ MORE:
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/12/17/facebook-google-and-twitter-agree-to-german-demand-to-delete-hate-speech-within-24-hours/
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