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July 13, 2013 12:20 am GMT

Twitter Hands Over Data of Anti-Semitic Tweets in France

Antisemitism

After a legal battle spanning several months, Twitter has finally handed data over to French prosecutors to help them identify the authors of certain anti-Semitic tweets

Jewish and anti-racism groups sued Twitter, requesting that the company provide data pertaining to the writers of anti-Semitic tweets using the hashtag #unbonjuif (#agoodjew) last year. In early 2012, a court the data. Twitter appealed the decision,

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Twitter announced Friday it had reached an agreement with France's Union of Jewish Students (UEJF), one of the groups that sued the company. As part of the agreement, Twitter provided the users' data — including IP and email addresses — to the Paris prosecutor. The settlement ends the dispute in the civil court

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