Germany fines Facebook $2.3 mn

Germany’s Federal Office of Justice has issued a fine of $2.3 mn (€2 mn) against Facebook Ireland Ltd for violating the provisions of the Network Enforcement Act (the country’s hate speech law) in the publication of its transparency report for the first half of 2018. In the order imposing the fine, the Federal Office of Justice admonishes the company in particular for the incomplete information provided in its published report on the number of complaints received about unlawful content. “This provides the general public with a distorted image both of the amount of unlawful content and of the social network’s response”, the agency said in statement.