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Facebook faces more pressure from lawmakers in Europe, after Germany’s interior minister called on the company to quickly remove hateful and illegal posts—on the same day that its chief Mark Zuckerberg reiterated that the free content ad network wouldn’t morph into a media empire.
The call from Thomas de Maiziere comes less than a week since a committee of MPs in the UK concluded that Twitter, Google, and Facebook were “consciously failing” to police extremism on their services.
“Facebook should take down racist content or calls for violence from its pages on its own initiative even if it hasn’t yet received a complaint,” said de Maiziere on Monday. “Facebook has an immensely important economic position and just like every other large enterprise it has a immensely important social responsibility.”
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Source: Ars Technica – “We’re a tech company, we’re not a media company,” says Facebook founder