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Germany launched procedures to fine Twitter for alleged failures to remove "illegal" content on the platform, such as hate speech and insults.

Twitter 2.0 could be set for a new test of its stripped-back moderation processes, with Germany’s Federal Justice Office (BfJ) today announcing that it’s…

The Federal Office of Justice (BfJ) has initiated fine proceedings under the Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) against Twitter International Unlimited Company. From the point of view of the BfJ, there are sufficient indications of failures in the complaint management of the provider of Twitter in Germany.

Germany launched procedures to fine Twitter for alleged failures to remove "illegal" content on the platform, such as hate speech and insults.

In an early FAFO test for Elon Musk, Germany could be set to fine Twitter for repeatedly failing to comply with its social media hate speech takedown law.

Germany could fine Twitter up to €50 million, under the country's Network Enforcement Act for failing to take down incitements of hate, defamatory speech, and personal threats.

Germany is one of the most censorship-prone in the European Union.

On Monday, TikTok deleted a viral anti-war video by the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP, the German section of the Fourth International) that had received over over 150,000 views.

This report follows our previous updates on European digital regulation and compliance developments for 2021 (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) and (Q1, Q2, and Q3) 2022.

To help organizations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main...