German Government supports heavy penalties social platforms such as Facebook: against false news-Facebook-IT news

Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor (Angela Merkel) Cabinet today that support a proposal aimed at punishing social media platform for publishing false news.

The proposal provides that if social networks such as Facebook does not provide the user with information about hate speech and false news channels, or refuse to remove illegal content, the maximum penalty of 50 million euros (about 53 million dollars) in fines.

In addition, for those who are marked as content of child pornography or incitement to terrorism, social networking sites must be removed. In addition to fine the company, executives may be reaching a maximum fine of 5 million euros (about 5.3 million u.s. dollars).

If the proposal was adopted by the German Parliament, will become Facebook so far in the world's most stringent regulation.

Germany's Justice Minister, Haikou Maas (Heiko Maas) said in an e-mailed statement: "crime as a social platform is being abused to spread hatred and false news, will assume responsibility for the platform provider. ”

Starting from December last year, Facebook started to step up crackdown on false news. During the presidential election last year, because, spread of false news on the Facebook platform, Facebook has also been accused of not doing enough to stop these false news.

In January, Facebook also launched measures to combat false news in Germany. Before that, German officials fear, diffusion of false news on the Facebook platform could have a negative impact on this year's parliamentary elections in Germany.

Facebook has about 29 million users in Germany.

德国政府支持重罚Facebook等社交平台：打击虚假新闻 - Facebook - IT资讯

德国总理默克尔（Angela Merkel）内阁今日表示，支持一项旨在惩罚社交媒体平台发布虚假新闻的提案。

该提案规定，如果Facebook等社交网络不向用户提供有关仇恨言论和虚假新闻的投诉渠道，或者拒绝删除一些非法内容，则最高处以5000万欧元（约合5300万美元）的罚款。

此外，对于那些被标记为儿童色情或煽动恐怖主义的内容，社交网站必须要给予删除。除了对公司进行罚款，公司高管最高也可能被罚款500万欧元（约合530万美元）。

如果该提案最终被德国议会通过，则将成为Facebook迄今为止在全球范围内所面临的最严厉的监管。

德国司法部长海蔻·马斯（Heiko Maas）在一份电子邮件声明中称：“当一个社交平台被滥用传播仇恨犯罪和虚假新闻时，该平台的提供商就要为此承担责任。”

从去年12月起，Facebook开始加大对虚假新闻的打击力度。原因是在去年的美国总统大选期间，虚假新闻在Facebook平台上泛滥，Facebook也因此被指责没有尽力来阻止这些虚假新闻。

今年1月，Facebook还在德国推出了打击假新闻措施。在此之前，德国政府官员担心，Facebook平台上扩散的假新闻可能对德国今年的议会选举带来负面影响。

Facebook在德国拥有约2900万用户。