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Twitter ‘to remove anti-Semitic posts’ after legal threat in France

20.10.12

Twitter ‘to remove anti-Semitic posts’ after legal threat in France: Twitter, a day after saying it blocked a neo-Nazi account in Germany in a global first, made another major concession Friday by agreeing to remove anti-Semitic posts in France, a lawyer said.

The company did not immediately confirm the move, but the lawyer for a French Jewish student union said that after it threatened legal action, Twitter agreed to take down many of the offending tweets that have recently flooded the site.

UEJF lawyer Stephane Lilti said after a meeting with Twitter’s lawyer in France that his client had scored an “important victory” over the micro-blogging site.


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