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That company does not work directly for the government but is contracted by Facebook directly. As far as I'm aware that team actively monitors content and does

That company does not work directly for the government but is contracted by Facebook directly. As far as I'm aware that team actively monitors content and doesn't need to have an explicit request to remove something. I also have never seen an example that is just critical of the governing parties which was supposedly removed (every single example I saw was of the type "hang chancellor Merkel"). My Facebook feed is full of people promoting opposition parties from the complete political spectrum.

yAnonymous 10y ago
No. It's Facebook that pays them (because they have to), but they work by government guidelines. If you take a look at the company behind it, you will find that they have their legs knee-deep in the government's ass. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertelsmann_Stiftung https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertelsmann_Stiftung One example is the German Anonymous channel. It was obviously fake, anti immigration and promoted the AFD (right wing party), but none of that is against the law. It had a ton of followers (I think in the six digits) and was removed just like that.