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How to take over The Local Germany’s Instagram for a week

The Local's #MyGermany series invites you to take over our Instagram account and show the world your Germany.

Published: 27 March 2019 13:53 CET
Updated: 28 March 2019 08:43 CET
How to take over The Local Germany's Instagram for a week
Two women take a selfie in Frankfurt, Hesse. Photo: DPA
We are looking for readers across Germany, from Ingolstadt and Halle, to Lübeck and Cologne, to take over our Instagram account and show the world their neighbourhood and town or city.
 
What's so good about where you live? Where are your favourite places to eat or meet people? Are there any bad points about living where you are? These are the kind of questions we want readers to answer by taking over the Local Germany's Instagram account. 
 
We then share the stories of our #MyGermany hosts in an article on the site. 
 
Do you want to take part in our #MyGermany Instagram takeover series? Find out more and apply using the form below?
 
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Swiss court rules defamatory Facebook likes ‘can be illegal’

The Swiss Federal Court has ruled that Facebook likes and shares can be considered as illegal defamation.

Published: 20 February 2020 15:08 CET
Swiss court rules defamatory Facebook likes ‘can be illegal’
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The case was hearing a matter from the canton of Zurich says people can in some cases be punished for sharing or liking particular posts on social media, even if they did not create the content themselves. 

The case related to a dispute between animal rights activists from 2015. The perpetrator had liked and shared several posts critical of fellow animal rights activist Erwin Kessler. 

In groups like ‘Vegan in Zurich’ and ‘Indyvegan’, the perpetrator had liked and shared posts which portrayed as a neo-Nazi who harboured anti-Semitic ideas. 

The Zurich court fined the perpetrator saying the social media actions amounted to defamation. The Federal Court on Thursday upheld the verdict. 

While issues related to defamation are relatively unclear on social media – as opposed to through traditional media sources – the court held that the potential for such remarks to go ‘viral’ meant that social media actions could be defamatory in nature. 

Swiss defamation law only requires that an act be communicated to a third party in order for it to be defamatory, with online communication reaching the relevant threshold. 

The court said that it would depend on the circumstances as to whether likes and shares were likely to breach defamation laws, however a major factor was how visible the post was to others outside the immediate friend networks of the person defamed. 

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