Photo: DPAFacebook was handed a win on Tuesday by a German court in a case brought by a Syrian refugee whose selfie with Chancellor Angela Merkel made him the target of racist trolls. Modamani wanted the US social media giant, represented by Facebook Ireland Limited, to stop the spread of such defamatory fake news, which have been shared countless times. He was represented by German lawyer Chan-jo Jun, who has previously launched legal action against Facebook, demanding it stop the spread of racist hate speech and other content illegal under German law. But the lawyer had countered that Facebook can automatically identify and take down, for example, copyrighted music and pornography. Jun last year launched legal action against Facebook in a Munich court, accusing its executives of condoning incitement of hate and violence.

Source: The Local March 07, 2017 13:18 UTC