PARIS: According to the UEJF French Jewish Students Association, which was one of numerous lobby groups that had pushed Twitter to do more in this area, a French court has ordered Twitter to disclose explicit details on what it is doing to combat hate speech. When contacted about the incident, a Twitter representative in France indicated the company had no immediate response.
On its website, the UEJF issued a statement citing the French court verdict. Initially, the UEJF and other French organizations such as SOS Racisme and SOS Homophobie attempted to exert pressure on Twitter to do more to combat racist content on the network. Tech companies have been accused of not doing more to combat online abuse. In May, the United Kingdom said that a potential new law would see social media corporations fined up to 10% of their annual turnover or £18 million (US$25 million) if they failed to combat online abuses such as racial hate crimes, with senior executives facing criminal charges. (Mathieu Rosemain and Gwenaelle Barzic contributed reporting; Sudip Kar-Gupta edited the piece.)/n
