Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Tuesday it is suing Facebook in France for allegedly violating the European nation’s consumer code with deceptive promises to fight hate speech and false information. In a press release, the Paris-based free press watchdog alleged that the U.S. social media giant has broken its own terms of services to “allow disinformation and hate speech to flourish” on the platform, including “hatred against journalists” and “significant disinformation about COVID-19.” The RSF cited two reports as evidence of Facebook’s alleged tolerance of hate speech against journalists. One details dozens of user comments containing “insults, threats, and calls for violence” against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and its journalists in September 2019, when a high-profile trial was underway of 14 people accused of helping two jihadists carry out the 2015 massacre at the magazine’s office. The other report concerns the “hate messages and threats” against journalists working …