Facebook to meet German government on Internet hate-mongering


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  • Friday, 28 Aug 2015

Nothing to hide: Facebook is more than happy to meet with Germany

BERLIN: Facebook accepted an invitation from Germany’s justice minister to discuss doing more to purge the social network of racist posts after widespread complaints from users. 

In a letter to Facebook’s European subsidiaries, Justice Minister Heiko Maas suggested a meeting with company executives on Sept 14 to talk about “improving the effectiveness and transparency of your community standards”. 

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