Syrian Migrant Launches Facebook ‘Fake News’ Legal Fight
“I was fed up with this happening again, so we discussed getting a lawyer involved.”
Chan-jo Jun, a lawyer who in November 2016 prompted an investigation into Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives following a complaint alleging that the company had failed to remove racist posts, in contravention of German laws against hate speech, has taken on the case.
“Facebook is doing a very poor job with fake news,” he told the BBC.
“But it is especially doing a poor job with illegal fake news.
“Not all fake news is illegal, but where it amounts to slander, as I believe this does, then it should be taken down.”
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