Feb 7, 2017
Facebook in court over refugee selfie fake news stories
Facebook deleted some of the posts, but lawyers for Mr Modamani claimed that it had still appeared widely. Facebook lawyer Martin Munz countered that, with billions of postings each day, the company would need to employ "a sort of wonder machine" to detect each misuse, according to Bloomberg. He shared the selfie on his Facebook page, and it became an emblem of Ms Merkel's immigration policy. Facebook has faced mounting criticism over its handling of fake news stories, and has recently launched filtering systems in the US, Germany and France. In France, Facebook has joined forces with Google and eight news organisations to launch fact-checking tools to root out fake news ahead of the country's presidential election.
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