Germany wants Facebook to take initiative in fight against online hate

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De Maiziere said he recognized Facebook's efforts to develop software that can better identify outlawed content and praised its efforts to fight child pornography.

Eva-Maria Kirschsieper, Facebook's head of Public Policy in Germany, told reporters during de Maiziere's visit that the discussions between political leaders and companies in social media would continue.

Mark Wallace, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who now heads the Counter Extremist Project in New York, a non-profit group that maintains a database of information about extremist groups, said Facebook was a leader in the social media sector in combating extremism, but more work was needed.

"Of all the companies, Facebook has done the most, but they're all just starting to recognize that the weaponization of social media platforms is not good business and not good for society," Wallace told Reuters.

Earlier this year, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg came to Berlin to respond to the criticism.

He said he had learned from Facebook's experience in Germany that migrants were a group of people who also needed to be protected from hate speech online.

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