Chagos
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Oh, what would we do without FB?
Better, maybe?
Syrian migrant launches Facebook 'fake news' legal fight - BBC News
Where FB takes down the photo(s) in a a reported post, it claims the matter as being settled. But wrt deleting all of them from whichever remote corner of its site, the demand so far has been that it's up to the complainant to find them and then report them. FB claiming difficulty in finding the stuff themselves.
Well, considering that by all counts they have recognition software that can scour the whole site for nudity and identify that for nuking, they're doing their usual spin-squirm here.
Better, maybe?
one instance (not shown in the article and meanwhile nuked) having been a post in which Merkel and Modamani were photoshopped on to a picture of the truck used in a terrorist attack on a Berlin Christmas market, along with the words: “They are Merkel’s dead.”A Syrian migrant who posed for a selfie with Angela Merkel is suing Facebook after being falsely linked to terrorism in posts shared on the social media network.
The legal action comes as Facebook has been facing significant pressure to combat the proliferation of fake news reports on its platform.
In Germany, there have been numerous instances of false allegations on social media made against migrants and refugees.
"I was first linked to attacks when my picture was circulated as being one of the Brussels attackers due to perceived resemblances between us," he told the BBC.
Syrian migrant launches Facebook 'fake news' legal fight - BBC News
Where FB takes down the photo(s) in a a reported post, it claims the matter as being settled. But wrt deleting all of them from whichever remote corner of its site, the demand so far has been that it's up to the complainant to find them and then report them. FB claiming difficulty in finding the stuff themselves.
Well, considering that by all counts they have recognition software that can scour the whole site for nudity and identify that for nuking, they're doing their usual spin-squirm here.