Facebook received a $82 million fine on Tuesday from a Ugandan Court, which says the social media giant provided misleading environment to a Kenyan Facebook group;Kilimani Mums and Dads where Ugandans are abused anyhow as Museveni’s cows.”Ugandan regulators have been pushing social media firms to remove racist and violent posts from their platforms in a timely manner for years. Their patience has run out,”Hon. Justice Yorokamu Bamwin quipped.
Kilimani Mums and Dads Facebook group was sued eight days ago.The high court in the republic of Uganda was set to hearing suit filed by Ugandan lawyer Fred Muwema, accusing Facebook group in Kenya (kilimani Mums and Dads) of defamation and character assassination.
Through lavelle solicitor, based in Uganda’s capital , Muwema says that his case relates to three highly- offensive and defamatory social media post by caro Ngui. in particular Muwema says the first post as put up on June 17,2016 @ 7.47 pm going by the title “Museveni’s cows” with the follow up post on June 19 7.47 and June 24 @ 3.20 pm Ugandan time .Since the posts appeared, the flamboyant lawyer says the three have been an indeterminate number of subsequent comments, posts and blogs which amongst other things condemned, ridicule him and his firm as well as endangering his safety, reputation and credibility.
Muwema insists that TVO’s allegation against him are the most extreme gravity as it is criminal offense in Uganda punishable by seven years in jail to destroy evidence as well as it being an offense to destruct the course of judicial proceedings.He has promised to bring all members of Kilimani Mums and Dads to book and make them face the full wrath of the law. He has threatened facebook to close the group before he takes more legal action on the members.“They cannot refer to me as Museveni’s cow and expect to walk away with it,” he noted.
Just two days before the EU’s announcement, Facebook incurred a much smaller fine of around $64,000 from a French regulator. In this case, the company was accused of violating France’s data protection rules by compiling personal user data for targeted advertising, as well as collecting data on users’ browsing activity without their knowledge. On the same day, Dutch regulators also claimed that Facebook had broken their privacy rules, but did not levy a fine
