A German court rejected a temporary injunction against Facebook (FB.O) on Tuesday in a case brought by a Syrian refugee who sued the social networking site for failing to remove faked posts linking him to crimes and militant attacks.
The Wuerzburg district court said in a preliminary ruling that Facebook is neither a “perpetrator nor a participant” in what it said was “undisputable defamation” by Facebook users, but simply acting as a hosting provider that is not responsible for pre-emptively blocking offensive content under European law.
The posts in dispute featured a picture showing Anas Modamani, a 19-year-old from
source http://www.omnipopmag.com/2017/03/07/german-court-rejects-injunction-for-facebook-in-syrian-selfie-case/
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