Can the giant Facebook block someone without accountability? The debate is taking place in court, a hearing took place this Wednesday at the Paris judicial court, before the 17th criminal chamber, which sits on press offenses. At the initiative of this hard fought trial, Lina Murr Nehme, 69-year-old retiree, Parisian of Lebanese origin, whom her lawyer presents as a “whistleblower”… And who was deprived of her Facebook account for more than three years.
The one who defines herself as “professor at the Lebanese University, historian, political scientist, Islamologist and author of numerous books”, saw her account deactivated after a publication in December 2019 on “Daesh in Algeria and its ambitions in Europe, at the bottom of which a Daesh press release was published,” summarizes the judge-rapporteur. “For three years, Meta
[the group to which Facebook belongs]
neither recognized nor explained the closure,” regrets Me Camille Alligand, on behalf of her client, absent at the hearing.
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