Social media firms must remove hate speech or face fines up to £44m under controversial law that came into force on 1 JanuaryUS social media companies have scaled up operations in Germany,where a controversial unusual law has turned the country into a testbed for whether tech firms can be relied on to tell the dissimilarity between free speech and hate speech.
Facebook and Twitter have fitted their German websites with additional features for flagging up controversial content, and spent months hiring and training moderators to manage with the Network Enforcement Act, and which came into full effect on 1 January 2018.
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Source: theguardian.com