Via Arutz 7 (h/t glykosymoritis):
Two French groups say they have filed a suit against Twitter, YouTube and Facebook for allegedly failing to uphold requirements to delete content deemed racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic or defending terrorism.
The lawsuit was filed on Sunday by the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) and SOS-Racisme, the organizations said in a press release.
They referred to a survey carried out between March 31 and May 10 by their members and those of a third association, SOS Homophobie.
In this "first mass test of social networks," the groups uncovered 586 instances of content that was "racist, anti-Semitic, denied the Holocaust, homophobic (or) defended terrorism or crimes against humanity," the joint statement said.
Only a fraction of these postings was deleted by the host organisations within a "reasonable time," as required under a 2004 French law: four percent on Twitter, seven percent on YouTube and 34 percent on Facebook.
"It's a mystery whether moderating teams in social media are actually working," said Sacha Reingewirtz, president of the UEJF.
Dominique Sopo, head of SOS-Racisme, said the social media giants were hypocritical.
"These platforms seem more shocked about content with bare breasts, which is swiftly censored, than about incitement to hatred," Sopo said.
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