German prosecutors have terminated their investigation on Facebook but political leaders kept criticizing.
Facebook has received good news from Europe. German prosecutors dropped an investigation of the American social networking company on accusations that it was unable to get rid of hate speech from its network, a spokesperson for the office of the prosecutors in Hamburg stated on March 16, 2016.
Prosecutors had been conducting an investigation to determine whether managers of Facebook might have violated criminal regulation after hateful comments were posted by users against particular groups or persons on the social platform, a rising concern amidst an emigration of refugees into Germany. Failure to eradicate posts like those swiftly might lead to incitement, a crime in the country, revealed by allegations.
Investigations aiming at the managers of the German division of the company were dropped. American executives of the company, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, are not being investigated. The lawyer who alleged, Chan-Jo Jun, has filed a complaint against the dropping of the investigation, the spokesperson told, but it is not clear whether prosecutors will investigate the matter again. Mr. Chan said the decision to terminate the investigation was not in line with judgments in the rest of the cases and popular opinion.
Online hate speech has been focused as part of a rising backlash against refugees who have migrated to Germany past year. German government and the social media service provider agreed in the fall of 2015 to jointly work to remove and identify unlawful content under German legislation, but political leaders have kept criticizing Facebook for its failure to act fast enough to remove extreme- anti refugee comments.
The decision of the prosecutors relieves Facebook, which is being targeted in Germany. The Federal Cartel office of the country is conducting an investigation to determine whether the company abuses its leading position amongst social platforms to compel users to surrender huge amount of personal details.
Separately, a court recently ruled that webpages shouldn’t send visitor data to the social network organization through the like button on its platform without the consent or knowledge of visitors. In other news, Facebook provides 200 job opportunities in its office in Dublin, which serves as headquarters for Europe, after it recently doubled its office size there.
These new jobs are part of the social media service provider’s plans to expand the office space to 250,000 square feet in the “Silicon Docks” of Dublin with space to accommodate up to 2000 workers. In 2009, it began its operations in Ireland.
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