Preliminary ruling: The Wuerzburg district court in Germany said in a preliminary ruling that Facebook is neither a 'perpetrator nor a participant' in what it said was 'undisputable defamation' by Facebook users. — Reuters
WUERZBURG, Germany: A German court on March 7 rejected a temporary injunction against Facebook in a case brought by a Syrian refugee who sued the social networking site for failing to remove faked posts linking him to crimes and militant attacks.
The Wuerzburg district court said in a preliminary ruling that Facebook is neither a "perpetrator nor a participant" in what it said was "undisputable defamation" by Facebook users, but simply acting as a hosting provider which is not responsible for pre-emptively blocking offensive content under European law.
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