Facebook, YouTube, and other social media firms will be fined up to €50 million (£43.9 million) by Germany if they fail to remove hate speech and other criminal content within 24 hours, BBC News reports.
The new legislation, which applies to platforms with more than 2 million users, will come into effect in October after German MPs voted in favour of the Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (NetzDG) law.
"Our experience has shown that unfortunately, social media companies do not improve their procedures without political pressure," said Justice Minister Heiko Mass, who oversaw the legislation, according to BBC News.
The law comes after several high-profile incidents of fake news and terrorist content spread on Facebook and YouTube in Germany.
Seems reasonable.
And German needs to be very vigilant in order to keep the same thing that happened here, with the election of Donald Trump, from happening there.
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