Facebook investigated by German prosecutors for failing to stop ‘hate speech’

Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg and other senior executives are being investigated in Germany after a lawyer filed a complaint accusing them of allegedly allowing racist and violent posts to remain on the social networking site.

The social media giant was accused of doing little to stop racism, Holocaust denial and violent threats on the site, according to Der Spiegel.

A Bavarian lawyer initiated the case by reporting Facebook to the police, accusing the company’s management of allowing such hateful posts to stay on the site without any consequences.

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