Facebook can be told to cast a wider net to find illegal content, says EU ...
(World News Austria)

How much of an obligation should social media platforms be under to hunt down illegal content? An influential advisor to Europe’s top court has that social media platforms like Facebook can be required to seek out and identify posts that are equivalent to content that an EU court has deemed illegal — such as hate speech or defamation — if the comments have been made by the same user. Platforms can also be ordered to hunt for identical repostings of the illegal content. But there should not be an obligation for platforms to identify equivalent defamatory comments that have been posted by any user, with the advocate general opining that such a broad requirement would not...