Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/16/2016

German legislators have proposed legislation that would force social media to act promptly to remove spurious news stories. Under the new law, Facebook and other prominent sites would be obliged to remove “fake news” items as soon as they were posted.

In other news, a fire at a migrant center near Paris killed one person and forced the evacuation of 300 people.…

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