Paris: Social media giant Facebook would be tried in France for blocking a French teacher’s account after he posted an image of a nude painting, a media report said.

Facebook was sued by a teacher whose account was blocked after he posted a 19th century painting by Gustave Courbet, ‘The Origin of the World’, depicting a woman’s genitalia. The teacher filed a complaint against the social media giant, saying the site could not differentiate between pornography and art. A Paris appeals court threw out Facebook’s appeal after the social media giant argued that only the US courts had jurisdiction to hear cases against it.