Facebook runs up against German hate speech laws

Berlin

YORAI Feinberg was going about his daily routine this month when his social media feeds and cellphone began lighting up.

It was the 78th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 Nazi pogrom against Jews, and the Berlin restaurant owned by Mr Feinberg, a 35-year-old Israeli, had been included without his knowledge on a map of the city that a far-right group had published on Facebook.