Germany to fine social media for not deleting hate messages

Social media has become a key element in the expansion and generation of hate messages. Something that has been verified with everything that happened in the United States in this last week. Therefore, there are countries that decide to take action on the matter. The first of them is Germany.

Germany to fine social media for not deleting hate messages

Germany aims to remove hate messages from social media. Therefore, they have created a new law (of which we already mentioned something a few months ago). Therefore, companies like Facebook or Twitter are obliged to eliminate hate or racist messages.

Social media fine

The fines could reach 50 million euros in some cases. Social networks will have a period of 24 hours to eliminate hate messages. This law comes at a time when we see how various groups frequently use Nazi symbols on their social networks or in demonstrations. Something that is prohibited in Germany.

The idea is that all those punishments that are applied on the street (inciting violence, hate messages or threats and the use of Nazi symbols) are also prosecuted and penalized on social networks. Although there have been many criticisms of it, as it is considered too strict, which is why it has undergone several modifications until its arrival.

We will see if social networks such as Facebook or Twitter collaborate with this new law or if, on the contrary, they will end up being victims of millionaire fines by the German government.