Twitter Gives French Prosecutors Data On Origin Of Anti-Semitic Tweets

Last month a French appellate court ordered Twitter to turn over to the Union of Jewish French Students (UEJF) and four human rights groups the names of individuals who last October posted Tweets using anti-Semitic hashtags. (See prior posting.) When Twitter failed to comply, UEJF filed a $50 million suit against it.  According to the New York Times,Twitter, in a statement released Friday, says it has now turned the names over to French prosecutors rather than the private groups. Twitter said:

in response to a valid legal request, Twitter has provided the prosecutor of Paris, Presse et Libertés Publiques section of the Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance, with data that may enable the identification of certain users that the Vice-Prosecutor believes have violated French law.