The German government on Wednesday approved a draft law to crack down on the far right, three weeks after a deadly attack by an alleged neo-Nazi targeting a synagogue.
German FA director Oliver Bierhoff on Monday
defended Germany national team players İlkay Gündoğan and Emre Can, but admitted they "made a mistake" by liking a post of Turkish footballers performing a military salute.
Facebook announced on Friday changes to the way political advertisements are handled on the social media site ahead of the upcoming European Parliament elections.
Berlin’s central Alexanderplatz witnessed shocking scenes on Thursday when hundreds of social media users invaded the square to confront each other. Video footage has emerged of the mass brawl, which has naturally ended up on social media sites.
Police at Berlin’s Alexanderplatz broke up a mass brawl between 400 fans of two rival social media ‘influencers’, making several arrests and confiscating knives in the process.
Germany must take steps to prevent online"social bots" from manipulating or hijacking sensitive political debates, the parliamentary leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's party warned Sunday.
The internet turned cruel for Germany
fans on Thursday as online mockery swept the globe following the defending
champions' shock World Cup elimination.
Germany lurched into a brief panic on Friday as several media outlets fell for a satirical tweet that claimed Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition had collapsed in a bitter row over immigration.
German car parts supplier Continental on Tuesday said it was banning the use of WhatsApp and Snapchat on work-issued mobile phones "with immediate effect" because of data protection
concerns.
A leading politician from German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party warned Monday that Facebook's dominance
makes competition "impossible", joining a broadside against the social network from Berlin.
Germany is the latest country to demand answers from Facebook after it emerged data from 50 million users was used to inform targeted election campaigns. German Justice Minister Katharina Barley on Thursday called such methods "a danger to democracy."
A German court has found Facebook is breaching data protection rules with privacy settings that over-share by default and by requiring users to give real names, a consumer rights organisation said Monday.
The Association of German Journalists accused the Alternative for Germany (AfD) of opening their own propaganda wing, after Focus magazine reported on Thursday that the far-right party are to set up their own newsroom in Berlin.
The Alternative for Germany party started 2018 by railing against "barbaric, Muslim, gang-raping hordes", ending months of relative post-election calm and any remaining doubt about its hardening
far-right course.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party on Monday formally cautioned one of its lawmakers over a tweet calling
tennis star Boris Becker's son a "little half-negro".
Germany's justice minister fell victim to the rules he himself championed against online social media when one of his tweets was deleted following several complaints, Bild daily reported on Monday. Critics accuse the new law of stifling freedom of speech.
On January 1st the Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (network enforcement act) came into force. Germans are furiously debating whether it is a necessary tool against hate speech or a form of censorship.
Noah Becker, son of German former tennis star Boris Becker, plans to press charges against a deputy from the far-right AfD party who called him a "little half-negro" on Twitter, Bild daily reported
Thursday.
Police in Cologne have filed a complaint against a prominent member of Germany's far-right AfD party over a tweet on New Year's Eve which they say violated anti-incitement laws.
Germany's competition watchdog said
on Tuesday that Facebook was abusing its dominant position to "limitlessly" harvest user data from outside websites and apps, allowing its advertisers to
target customers with hyper-specific ads.
After the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) had warned that China was trying to recruit German informants for intelligence services via social media networks, Beijing denied these accusations on Monday.
