French Council of the Muslim Faith launches formal legal complaint against social media companies and says they disseminated material that encourages terrorism
A man man walks past flowers and tributes displayed in memory of the twin mosque massacre victims along the road outside the Linwood mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand on March 25 2019. Picture: AFP/ANTHONY WALLACE
The French Council of the Muslim Faith said the companies had disseminated material that encouraged terrorism and harmed the dignity of human beings. There was no immediate comment from either company. Abdallah Zekri, president of the CFCM’s Islamophobia monitoring unit, said the organisation had launched a formal legal complaint against Facebook and YouTube in France.The chair of the US House Committee on Homeland Security wrote a letter to top executives of four major technology companies last week urging them to do a better job of removing violent political content.
“They have failed big time, this was a person who was looking for an audience and ... you were the platform he chose to advertise himself and his heinous crime,” said FIANZ spokesperson Anwar Ghani, referring to Facebook.
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