Members of the National Assembly lower house of parliament vote by 434 in favor to 33 against to adopt the law, which is modelled on German legislation that came into force last year.
Governments accused online platforms of not doing enough to stamp out hate speech in a Paris summit in May after a gunmanThe footage was shared millions of times despite efforts to remove it.Laetitia Avia, an MP who drafted the bill, said on Twitter that online hate speech was"a public health issue" which"the vast majority of French people have seen or experienced".
Avia said last week she suffers so many racist insults on Twitter that she once thought an abuse-free day was due to a technical problem. Social media companies have a responsibility to"set up moderation systems which are up to the job", he added. Social media giant Facebook has questioned whether the 24-hour window to remove hateful content is realistic, saying many posts require careful analysis and tricky legal assessment.
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