For the past few days, Snapchat has been the target of criticism following a panel discussion at the National Assembly on Monday, July 10. Snapchat’s public affairs manager in France, Sarah Bouchahoua, returned to the role of the social network during the recent riots.
During this exchange, in which TikTok and Facebook also participated, the manager explained that the platform “worked together with the Ministry of the Interior and the different authorities to stop as quickly as possible the various slip-ups that we have been able to perceive on the ground.” “.
Users complaining about the riots
In particular, the app’s Snap Map feature has been accused of promoting urban violence by showing “the place of future abuse,” in the words of Keeper of the Stamps, Eric Dupond-Moretti.
From then on, Snapchat was accused of having censored certain content in order to no longer show it on its interactive map. But if the app admits to “mobilizing a dedicated task force” for moderation at the start of the riots, it denies any overzealousness and guarantees to have stuck to its usual rules.
Government links
“The vast majority of the content we saw related to recent events was made up of people sharing their perspective on what’s happening on the ground and curated on the Snap Map. We removed any content that encouraged violence or called for looting, as this It is not allowed on Snapchat,” the company adds.
To legitimize their criticism, some people point to the ties of Sarah Bouchahoua, Snapchat’s public affairs manager in France, to the government.
As CheckNews recalls, Sarah Bouchahoua participated in the campaign of Laetitia Avia, elected deputy for the eighth district of Paris in 2017. She also led the Parisian section of the Youth Movement with Macron. She before collaborating with Laetitia Avia in the National Assembly from 2018 to 2020.
Sarah Bouchahoua thus participated in the work on the “Avia law” to combat hateful content on the Internet.
Source: BFM TV
