Before more than 220 mayors of municipalities affected by the riots, Emmanuel Macron had mentioned the possible responsibility of social networks in the recent urban violence and wondered. “When things get out of control, you may have to put yourself in a position to regulate or cut them,” explained the head of state, calling not to think “hot” about it.
After an opposition protest, the government had specified that it was considering suspending the “functionalities” of certain platforms. “There are several technical issues that we are thinking about, all of this is in the works,” Elisabeth Borne specifies in an interview with the Parisian Posted this Saturday.
The platforms “played the game”
During the riots, the Ministries of the Interior and Justice multiplied the searches for the removal of illegal content from the main platforms -Twitter, TikTok, Meta (Facebook and Instagram) and Snapchat- whose representatives had been summoned by the Ministers of the Interior. Gérald Darmanin and Digital Jean-Noël Barrot.
The four social networks responded very quickly to their requests, sometimes in less than an hour, and “removed thousands of illegal content and suspended hundreds of accounts,” the Delegate of the Ministry for Digital said on Wednesday. On the viewer, calls for violence and disclosure of personal data (of police officers, for example).
Source: BFM TV
