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Only authoritarian regimes try to control what the truth is, said one conservative senator while many Twitter users mocked the plan..

Following the Harvey Weinstein affair, a French journalist has urged women to publish names of men who had sexually harassed them at work.

PM Manuel Valls denounced 'monstrous' picture of beheaded man which far-right leader posted after academic likened Front National to IS.

Le Monde newspaper claims leader of far-right Front National has been using pseudonym Anne Lalanne to tweet to her followers.

Bernard Cazeneuve met the US tech giants in California, asking them to work directly with French authorities to erase online terror propaganda.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon Tweets attack after German leader asked France for more budget tightening; German minister strikes softer tone.

The 17-year-old sons of former president and ex-partner of current president insult each other in what has been dubbed 'le tweetclash'.

Twitter and French bank Groupe BPCE team up to offer personal money transfers to those with a bank account and a Twitter handle in France.

The service, which will be available to anyone with a bank account and Twitter handle in France, will enable person-to-person money transfer.

Watchdog UFC-Que Choisir is suing the social media giants for using 'illegible' user terms of conditions that breach internet users' privacy.

Two French organisations have filed criminal charges against the US-based website for refusing to hand over the details of users violating French law.

The so-called Twitter Affair in which anti-Semitic and other racist comments were Tweeted has provoked a major outcry in France over the use and abuse of the internet. The government has promised to take action and a senator is currently overseeing plans for new legislation to 'supervise' the web in France. But many internet rights campaigners fear that freedom of speech could become the first casualty of this war on racist, sexist and homophobic language on the internet. Jérôme Hourdeaux reports.

French ministers in talks with company officials over homophobic, racist and anti-semitic tweets which Paris says contravene laws on hate-speech.

A criminal investigation into a raft of anti-Semitic messages posted on Twitter could test the microblogging site's refusal to mediate content.

The informal 'you' in French, 'tu', is taking over on social media, at the expense of the formal 'vous', threatening a major shift in etiquette.