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Social media firms must take responsibility -Germany's Scholz at re:publica

FILE PHOTO: People use an Apple laptop computer and an Apple iPad in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., August 25, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz underscored the importance of social media companies taking responsibility for content in an interview on Thursday and defended the Digital Services Act.

"There need to be platforms and companies that recognise and accept their social responsibility - just as we know and expect in the analogue world," Scholz said at the re:publica digital conference in Berlin.

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