Twitter Fined 50 million over Racist Tweets

By Jane Gracielo, on March 23rd, 2013%
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Twitter is going on the battlefield again and face the court in France for the offensive, racist tweets.

It was in October 2012, that a hashtag #UnBonJuif or “A good Jew” in English made a trending topic in France through the largest microblogging social network in the world. The UEJF or the Association of Jewish Students in France ignited the legal action against Twitter asking the court to force the site to hand them the details of those users who used the hashtag to legal actions will be filed against them. The court agreed with the . . . → Read More: Twitter Fined 50 million over Racist Tweets

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Google Once Again Sued for Auto-complete Feature

By Jane Gracielo, on May 1st, 2012%
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Once again, Google is facing another lawsuit because of the Auto-complete feature.

Many French anti-discrimination agencies filed a lawsuit against the popular search engine for apparently proclaiming unpermitted and systematic associations involving celebrities along with their “Jewishness” by Google’s auto-complete feature, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.

SOS Racisme, a French anti-racist NGO, as well as several anti-racism organizations are scheduled for a hearing on Wednesday for a lawsuit which claims that Google is “overseeing the creation of what is probably the biggest Jewish file in history” with auto-complete suggestion feature that connect well-known individuals, for instance Rupert . . . → Read More: Google Once Again Sued for Auto-complete Feature

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