Facebook fined 2 million euros in Germany

Germany has long been one of the strictest countries with content not allowed on social media. The country forces social networks to report and remove content that incites hatred. If they don't, they face fines. This is what happened with Facebook this time, which gets a fine of 2 million euros from the country's government.

Facebook fined 2 million euros in Germany

This is a fine for not having reported all cases of inappropriate content on your website. They reported fewer cases than they actually had been.

Fine to the social network

Facebook had reported just 1, 000 complaints of inappropriate content in six months. While other social networks had more than 25, 000 complaints in their annual figures. Something that made suspicious about the figures that the Zuckerberg social network was reporting. As it could be found out later, only certain contents or incidents were reported. So another image was given that did not correspond to reality.

Therefore, from Germany they have not been shown according to the method used by the social network. So they are fined for this very reason. A fine that is not surprising in part, because it is not the first time this has happened to the company.

Germany requires all pages to report the number of complaints and incidents about inappropriate content. Something that Facebook has not done in this case. For this, they receive a fine. In the event that they do it again, they will be fined again.

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