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A Polish court held a first hearing on Wednesday in a case against Facebook by a historian who claims that the technology giant has "been involved" in "censorship" by suspending accounts published about the company. a nationalist rally in Warsaw.
The case comes as big tech companies like Facebook and Twitter introduce new measures to eliminate extremist content and eliminate misinformation on the Internet, under growing pressure from governments demanding action.
Historian Maciej Swirski complained that Facebook had suspended in 2016 a few accounts that provided information on an Independence Day march organized by right-wing groups.
"I am not a member of the National Movement, but as a citizen, I wanted to keep abad of the event in question and I was prevented from doing so," Swirski said at the conference. ; AFP.
"This censorship does not concern my own publications, but rather the content I wanted to see."
The historian is also president of the anti-defamation organization Reduta Dobrego Imienia, who uses to defend the image of Poland, especially in the context of World War II.
Swirski claimed that Facebook wanted to move the trial to Palo Alto and have it held in camera, but the Warsaw court refused.
"We would like to know the mechanisms used by Facebook to moderate the content," he said.
AFP was not able to reach Facebook officials in Poland on Wednesday for comments.
But the company's lawyers argued that censorship could only be exercised by the state and that a private press office was not obliged to publish any particular content.
Swirski, however, claimed that the "global giant" was not a media company like the others.
The next hearing will be on October 30th.
Facebook is already in the spotlight as a result of its role in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
After revelations from a whistleblower, it has been shown that tens of millions of users had seen their personal data diverted by Cambridge Analytica, a political firm working for Donald Trump in 2016.
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