BERLIN: German judges and state prosecutors need to crack down straight away on fake news disseminated through social media platforms such as Facebook, Germany's Justice Minister Heiko Maas said in an interview published on Dec 18.
Maas, a Social Democrat in conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition, has repeatedly warned the US technology company to respect laws against defamation in Germany that are more rigid than in the United States. He told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper the principle of free speech did not protect against slander.
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