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Syrian migrant launches Facebook 'fake news' legal fight

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Oh, what would we do without FB?

Better, maybe?
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.
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.”

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.
 
Needless to say I have no account with them. After brief membership years ago I nuked it completely by using a software that killed every detail of mine on their site. That can't be said for millions of others who have meanwhile cancelled their accounts using FB's own cancellation feature. Their data is still there (albeit hidden) and they can't go the way I went any more, because FB blocked the software the minute it had gotten wind of it.

I hear it's great for keeping in touch with people one otherwise wouldn't see. Well, people I won't see are not worth keeping in touch with anyway.:roll:
 
~ I hear it's great for keeping in touch with people one otherwise wouldn't see. Well, people I won't see are not worth keeping in touch with anyway.:roll:

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Such a ****ty thing to do to anyone. Once images have been exploited, shared and misrepresented, it's impossible to remove all traces.


Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think. Mindless fools, copy, paste, forward. Next. Perhaps one day they will be a victim of such heinous actions. I doubt they would be over thrilled.
 
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