The Facebook Inc. website is displayed on an Apple Inc. iPhone in this arranged photograph taken in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Monday, April 22, 2019. As Facebook Inc. prepares to report first-quarter results Wednesday, analysts are confident that the social-media company has moved past negative headlines that dogged the stock throughout the second half of 2018 and is positioned to monetize its massive user base in new ways. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg
Facebook Inc may be ordered to remove offensive content posted by users in the European Union and then also hunt for similar posts anywhere in the world, an adviser to the bloc’s top court said.
Since the EU’s law for digital services and electronic commerce "does not regulate the territorial scope of an obligation to remove information disseminated via a social network platform, it does not preclude a host provider from being ordered to remove such information worldwide”, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar of the EU Court of Justice said Tuesday in a non-binding opinion.
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