(France) Twitter hands over data on anti-Semitic tweeters
Twitter hands over data on anti-Semitic tweeters
Social network giant Twitter announced on Friday that it had handed over information to French authorities to help identify the authors of a anti-Semitic tweets, after a landmark court ruling ordered the company to pass on the data.
Twitter has handed over data to French authorities to help identify the authors of anti-Semitic tweets following a complaint from a Jewish students' group, AFP reported on Friday.
Twitter said in a statement that it had given information to judicial authorities "enabling the identification of some authors" of anti-Semitic tweets..
A French court in January ordered the company to provide the data after the complaint from France's Union of Jewish Students (UEJF).
The ruling followed a legal complaint lodged in October by UEJF which argued that numerous tweets had breached French law prohibiting incitement to racial hatred.
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