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A Roma child: Facebook has been condemned for hosting anti-gypsy groups on its site (Photo: EUobserver)

MEPs attack Facebook over anti-gypsy hate groups

Socialist deputies in the European Parliament have condemned Facebook, the popular social networking service, for hosting anti-gypsy groups on its site.

Facebook groups attacking Roma people and bearing such names as "Let's burn them all", "Turn gypsies into fuel" and "Useful work for gypsies: testers of gas chambers" have been roundly condemned by the Party of European Socialists.

German MEP and Socialist group leader Martin Schulz said: "The existence of these groups is repulsiv...

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A Roma child: Facebook has been condemned for hosting anti-gypsy groups on its site (Photo: EUobserver)

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