BERLIN – Facebook Inc. announced it would step up efforts to target racist posts on its German website after the government requested a crack down on a surge in xenophobic outbursts against refugees.
The U.S. company said it would join forces with a Germany Internet watchdog, a nonprofit group called Voluntary Self-Monitoring of Multimedia Service Providers, to monitor suspected hate postings from users.
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