- Title: Like? Macron, Facebook's Zuckerberg meet amid calls for tighter regulation
- Date: 10th May 2019
- Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (MAY 10, 2019) (REUTERS) FRENCH ARMED FORCES MINISTER FLORENCE PARLY AND ARMY CHIEF FRANCOIS LECOINTRE ENTERING ROOM FOR NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (French) FRENCH ARMED FORCES MINISTER FLORENCE PARLY, SAYING: "The armed forces pay the price of their lives. But the message addressed to bandits and terrorists is clear: Those who attack France and the French k
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- Keywords: Facebook privacy Zuckerberg Macron data protection
- Location: PARIS, FRANCE
- City: PARIS, FRANCE
- Country: France
- Topics: Company News Markets,Economic Events
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- Story Text: French President Emmanuel Macron hosted a meeting with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Paris on Friday (May 10).
A report commissioned by Macron concluded that French authorities should have more access to Facebook's algorithms and greater scope to audit the social media company's internal policies against hate speech.
The report, published on Friday, comes after Facebook has been heavily criticized by politicians and the public for its failure to more rapidly remove footage of the March shooting attack in Christchurch, New Zealand from its network. Fifty people were killed in the assault, with footage of it circulating online for days.
For the report, Facebook allowed a team of French regulators to spend six months inside the company monitoring its policies. It represents a "half-time" assessment for their stint which started in January.
"The inadequacy and lack of credibility in the self-regulatory approach adopted by the largest platforms justify public intervention to make them more responsible," the report said.
Macron wants France to take a leading role on tech regulation, seeking to strike a balance between what he perceives as the United States' laissez-faire stance and China's iron grip on the Internet.
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