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Facebook’s relationship with the content its users post and the balancing act it needs to pull off to allow free speech (but remove hate speech) is a tricky one. Today, it’s in hot water with German prosecutors, who say they’re going to investigate the company’s European head, Martin Ott. According to De Spiegel, Ott is the fourth executive at the company to be investigated over the issue of racist comments being allowed to remain on the site. A spokesperson for the company told TNW: “Facebook is not commenting on the status of a possible investigation but we can say that…

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