TWITTER SUED FOR 50 MILLION DOLLARS

Twitter is being sued for $50M in France after allegedly failing to disclose the identities of a group of users posting anti-Semitic messages and hashtags over a five month period. Numerous unknown users began posting offensive jokes and photos along with a hashtag #unbonjuif - which in English means "Good Jew." After a strong backlash Twitter ended up removing the offensive tweets, however, that was not action enough for some of those angered by the postings. After a strong backlash Twitter ended up removing the offensive tweets, however, that was not action enough for some of those angered by the postings. They demanded that Twitter release the identities of all the users that had posted offensive messages under the #unbonjuif hashtag, in the hope that they could be prosecuted under France's anti-hate speech laws. After Twitter failed to respond the Union of French Jewish Students (UEJF) filed a summons against Twitter in November 2012, and in January a French court ordered the social media company to provide the identities of the users. However, Twitter's two weeks to comply with the order came and passed and the company has still not complied with the order. The UEJF is now seeking to sue the company for $50 million for failure to adhere to the court order.