Facebook says it cannot monitor all its customers' posts for racist language

Berlin

FACEBOOK Inc cannot monitor all its customers' posts for racist language, attorneys for the social network told a German court on Monday while trying to prevent an order that would force the company to block a photo showing Chancellor Angela Merkel and a refugee that has been misused in several hate-speech postings.

"There are billions of postings each day," said Martin Munz, a Facebook lawyer. "You want us to employ a sort of wonder machine to detect each misuse. Such a machine doesn't exist."