Twitter pulling racist, anti-Semitic posts after lawsuit threat

10-19-2012, 09:15 AM

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Twitter pulling racist, anti-Semitic posts after lawsuit threat

Twitter pulling racist, anti-Semitic posts after lawsuit threat

10-19-2012 07:57 AM

Twitter agreed to pull racist and anti-Semitic tweets under a pair of French hash tags after a Jewish group threatened to sue the social network for running afoul of national laws against hate speech, the organization said. The decision came a day after Twitter bowed to German law and blocked an account of a banned neo-Nazi group there.

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