Be very careful what you "like" on Facebook (1.Viewing)

[h]Man fined $4,000 for 'liking' defamatory posts on Facebook[/h]


Be very careful what you "like" on Facebook.


A court in Switzerland has convicted a man on several counts of defamation after he "liked" libelous comments on the social media platform.

The court in Zurich found that the man indirectly endorsed and further distributed the comments by using the ubiquitous Facebook (FB, Tech30) "like" button.

The man, who was not named in the court's statement, "liked" several posts written by a third party that accused an animal rights activist of antisemitism, racism and fascism.

In court, the man was not able to prove that the claims were accurate or could reasonably be held to be true.



"The defendant clearly endorsed the unseemly content and made it his own," a statement from the court said.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/31/technology/facebook-like-defamation-switzerland/index.html


Another reason why I don't use Facebook.... EVER

Me as well *THUMBSUP*

MapleDots said:

Another reason why I don't use Facebook.... EVER

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You know.... funny thing, I am a techno nerd, always have been but I have virtually no social media accounts.

Nobody in my family has ever had a facebook account because I knew early on that it could not be good for a company like that to own so much information.

It still gets me how some blogs and forum sites only have facebook as a login, they do not consider that there are still people on the planet who do not have facebook accounts.