(7 Mar 2017) A court in southern Germany has dismissed a case brought against Facebook by a Syrian refugee who wanted the company to seek and delete posts falsely linking him to crimes committed by migrants.
Anas Modamani was one of several asylum-seekers who took a selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the height of the refugee crisis in 2015.
In one of the two types of posts, Modamani was identified as one of several migrant youths who tried to set fire to a homeless man at a Berlin subway station in December.
In the other, Modamani and Merkel appear in a photo montage with the truck used to attack a Christmas market in the city.
These started appearing in Facebook posts following high-profile crimes in Germany where migrants were identified as the perpetrators.
The original posts have since been removed because they breached German privacy laws.
But Modamani wanted an injunction forcing Facebook to actively identify and remove such posts, rather than wait for users to flag them.
German news agency dpa reports the court in Wuerzbuerg ruled Tuesday that Facebook hadn't made the slanderous posts its own and therefore couldn't be forced to abide by a cease and desist order.

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