The German government and Facebook are working with an organization led by an ex-Stasi agent to oversee a new program that will identify "xenophobic" posts made on the social networking website and punish people who make them with fines and jail sentences.

The German Minister of Justice Heiko Maas met with Facebook this week to form a special task force that will work to remove comments from the website that "call for hatred" against migrants.

The organization will be overseen by Network Against Nazis (Netz gegen Nazis), a group led by left-wing activist Anetta Kahane.

Although Kahane now describes herself as an "anti-racist," she was intimately involved in another dark period of German history, working as a Stasi informant under the codename "Victoria" from 1974-1982.