Enlarge / Anas Modamani outside court today in Wurzburg, Germany. (credit: Getty Images)
Anas Modamani, a Syrian refugee living in Germany, went to court against Facebook today. He argued that the online giant didn’t do enough to stop his image from being associated with bogus news stories about terrorism.
In 2015, Modamani snapped a selfie with German chancellor Angela Merkel when she visited the shelter where he was living in Berlin. At the time, he was excited. The photo ended up on on television and on the front pages of newspapers. The publicity led to him being taken in by a German foster family, he told Deutsche Welle.
“For the first five months, I thought it was a good luck charm,” Modamani told CNN. “But now I think it’s bad luck.”
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Source: Ars Technica – Refugee who took selfie with German chancellor has had enough of “fake news”