‘Intolerable & dangerous’: Auschwitz Committee accuses Facebook of turning blind eye to hate speech

‘The International Auschwitz Committee has accused Facebook of “poisoning the societal climate” in Germany and overseas, saying the social media giant’s soft treatment and arrogance towards online hate speech is “increasingly intolerable and dangerous.”
Facebook “continues to massively participate in the poisoning of the social climate, not only in Germany,” said Christoph Heubner, executive vice president of the International Auschwitz Committee (IAC), as quoted by German news agencies.
“Obviously, the responsible persons at Facebook neither take the [German] justice minister nor the German legislator seriously.”‘
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