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October 20, 2012
Twitter has agreed to remove a flood of racist and anti-Semitic tweets on its service in France, following threats of a lawsuit by a Jewish student group. The company has long refused efforts to police its millions of users, but Twitter may have to do more to make sure its global network respects local laws. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley has the story.