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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12067

21 July 2018
SECTORAL POLICIES / Justice
Facebook embroiled in new dispute for suggesting that negationist ideas can be expressed
Brussels, 20/07/2018 (Agence Europe)

The giant US social network, Facebook, has hit another false note. In an interview given on Wednesday 18 July to the US specialist Recode website, Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, said that he considered it was not up to the social network to censure negationist ideas.

Mr Zuckerberg stated that “The approach that we’ve taken to false news is not to say, you can’t say something wrong on the internet. I think that that would be too extreme”.

He acknowledged that denying the existence...

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