Swiss Court Upholds Fine for Sharing Anti-Semitic Facebook Post

Using Facebook Inc.’s “like” or “share” button to distribute right-wing or anti-Semitic material could be a crime if the information ends up being circulated to a third party, Switzerland’s top court ruled. The Swiss Federal Court upheld a fine imposed on a man for “repeated defamation” by a Zurich court, ruling that “activating both ‘like’ and ‘share’ buttons in Facebook can improve visibility and thereby contribute to the dissemination within the social network of marked content.”