Facebook defeated in French court ruling

The Paris appeal court on Friday upheld a ruling that Facebook can be sued under French and not Californian law. The ruling applies to a case in which a French teacher wants to sue the US social media giant over his claims that his page was censored when he posted a graphic painting of a woman's nude lower half by Gustave Courbet. The teacher, Frederic Durand-Baissas, won in the Paris high court last year after claiming that Facebook were wrong to suspend his account.