Court upholds Twitter complaint against conspiracy-plagued Dutch town

The Hague District Court concluded that the social media giant “has done enough to remove unlawful content about the ‘Bodgraven Story’ from its platforms,” ​​including permanently Suspend a Twitter account for defamatory and inflammatory tweets about this story. surrounding towns , residents tweeted last month Went to court and asked it to remove all information related to unfounded stories of child abuse and murder in Bodegraven decades ago.

These stories have made Bodgraven the focus of conspiracy theories on social media ever since 200, strangers flock to local cemeteries to lay flowers and write letters at graves dead child. The court said it would not order Twitter to remove other tweets related to the story from other accounts, but did tell the company to respond immediately specifically from Bodegraven -Reeuwijk’s delete request. Twitter had Arguing that it’s impossible to create a good filter to find Bodegraven stories that don’t affect legal content. Three men accused of inciting Bod Graven’s story are currently in jail after being charged in other court cases for inciting and To include Prime Minister Mark Rutte and former Health Minister Hugo de Jonge.