German prosecutors investigate Facebook over hate postings
German
prosecutors are investigating Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook
executives, a spokesman for the Munich prosecutor's office said on
Friday, following a complaint alleging the company broke national laws
against hate speech and sedition by failing to remove racist postings.
The
spokesman declined to provide further details. German attorney Chan-jo
Jun had filed a complaint with prosecutors in the Bavarian city in
September and demanded that Facebook executives be compelled to comply
with anti-hate speech laws by deleting racist or violent postings from
its site.
Facebook's rules forbid bullying, harassment
and threatening language, but critics say it does not do enough to
enforce them and has failed to staunch a tide of racist and threatening
posts on the social network during an influx of migrants into Europe.
Prosecutors
in Hamburg earlier this year rejected a similar complaint by Jun on the
grounds that the regional court lacked jurisdiction because Facebook's
European operations are based in Ireland.
"There is a different view in Bavaria," his firm Jun Lawyers of Wuerzburg in Bavaria said in a statement.
"Upon
Jun's request, Bavarian Justice Minister Winfried Bausback said that
Hamburg's view was wrong and German law does indeed apply to some of the
offences," it said.
Jun's complaint named Facebook
founder and chief executive Zuckerberg and nine other managers at the
company, including Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg.
Facebook said it had not violated German law and was working on fighting hate speech online.
"We
are not commenting on the status of a possible investigation but we can
say that the allegations lack merit and there has been no violation of
German law by Facebook or its employees," a company spokesman said.
Jun
has compiled a list of 438 postings that were flagged as inappropriate
but not deleted over the past year. They include what some might
consider merely angry political rants but also clear examples of racist
hate speech and calls to violence laced with references to Nazi-era
genocide.
Following a public outcry and pressure from
German politicians, Facebook this year hired Arvato, a business services
unit of Bertelsmann, to monitor and delete racist posts.
A
rash of online abuse and violent attacks against newcomers to Germany
accompanied the influx of hundreds of thousands of migrants last year,
which led to a rise in the popularity of the anti-immigrant Alternative
for Germany (AfD) party and has put pressure on Chancellor Angela
Merkel.
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