Facebook Argentina fined over fake profiles


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 03 Dec 2014

INEXCUSABLE IF TRUE: According to the plaintiffs

BUENOS AIRES: Facebook Argentina was ordered to pay a firefighter one million pesos (RM244,115) for failing to comply with an order to delete insulting fake profiles of the plaintiff, the Ministry of Justice said. 

The plaintiff, whose identity was not disclosed, called on the social network for over a year to delete fake profiles by people who wrote insults related to a labour dispute. 

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