{"id":317566,"date":"2017-05-09T08:46:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T08:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=317566"},"modified":"2017-05-09T08:46:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T08:46:57","slug":"facebook-must-delete-hate-postings-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=317566","title":{"rendered":"Facebook must delete hate postings, court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A court in Austria has ordered that Facebook must remove postings seen as hate speech, in a ruling that is set to have international implications.<\/p>\n<p>The case was brought by the country&#8217;s Green Party after its leader was targeted by a false account.<\/p>\n<p>The court said postings not just in Austria but worldwide must be deleted. Facebook has not yet commented.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling is seen as a victory for campaigners who want to make social media platforms combat online trolling.<\/p>\n<p>The appeals court in Vienna ruled that postings against Greens&#8217; leader Eva Glawischnig &#8211; and any verbatim re-postings &#8211; should be removed.<\/p>\n<p>It added that merely blocking the messages in Austria without removing them for users abroad was not sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>The court said it was easy for Facebook to automate this process.<\/p>\n<p>A Green lawmaker, Dieter Brosz, said Facebook could no longer claim it was just a platform and needed to take responsibility for tackling hate postings.<\/p>\n<p>Internet giants including Facebook, Twitter and Google have all come under fire in many countries for failing to remove hate speech from their platforms promptly.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, German ministers approved plans to fine social media firms up to 50m euros ($53.3m; \u00a342.7m) if they fail to remove hate speech and fake news quickly.<\/p>\n<p>The companies have recently announced measures to address the issue:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Facebook said it would hire 3,000 people to help stop hate speech, child abuse and self-harm being broadcast on the website<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Google said changes on how its core search engine works would help stop the spread of fake news and hate speech<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court in Austria has ordered that Facebook must remove postings seen as hate speech, in a ruling that is set to have international implications. The case was brought by the country&#8217;s Green Party after its leader was targeted by a false account. The court said postings not just in Austria but worldwide must be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":317567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[339,6929,340,6930],"class_list":["post-317566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-hate-posts","tag-fake-news","tag-green-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}