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Top EU court rules Facebook must remove or disable illegal comments

The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that individual EU member states can order Facebook Inc. to remove or disable global access to users' comments that were declared unlawful.

The decision is related to a case filed by Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek, a former leader of Austrian parliamentary party the Greens, who wanted Facebook to remove comments posted on a user's personal page that a court found to have insulted and defamed her.

The EU's top court said that while EU law does not hold Facebook liable for illegal comments and "equivalent content" posted on its platform, it can still be directed to take down the comments.

The ruling could force Facebook to monitor its platform and remove hateful posts by its European users, an act the company warns could threaten freedom of speech, Bloomberg News reported.

The EU court's decision came a few weeks after it ruled that Alphabet Inc. unit Google LLC is not by default required to de-reference results on a global scale in relation to the "right to be forgotten" rule.