German court rules against Syrian refugee in Facebook case
by Philip Oltermann from Technology | The Guardian on (#2F1V1)
Anas Modamani's injunction rejected after judge says social network not obliged to seek out and delete defamatory posts
A Syrian refugee who took a selfie with Angela Merkel has failed in his attempt to sue Facebook over a series of posts falsely linking him to terrorist attacks.
The photograph which Anas Modamani, from Darayya near Damascus, took of himself and the German chancellor at a Berlin refugee shelter in September 2015 has since been repeatedly shared on doctored photomontages supposedly identifying him as the culprit behind crimes and terrorist attacks across Europe.
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