
Facebook has announced it will hand over the identities of French users suspected of posting hate speech on its platform to the courts.
In a world first, the tech giant has agreed to hand over the identification data of hate speech suspects on its platform to judges, France's minister for digital affairs Cedric O said yesterday.
Facebook will share the IP addresses of accounts containing 'homophobic, racist or anti-Semitic content', a ministerial aide confirmed.
IP (Internet Protocol) addresses allow investigators to identify and locate the computers used to make such posts.