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Zuckerberg hails France’s regulation of hateful online content
- Sunday | 12th May, 2019
PARIS (Reuters) – Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg hailed France’s efforts to regulate hateful content online as a model for the European Union after meeting President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Friday. ‘DOMINATING POSITION’However, the convergence between French regulators and big tech companies was criticised by some internet lobby groups. France’s parliament, where Macron’s ruling party has a comfortable majority, is debating legislation that would give the new regulator the power to fine tech companies up to 4% of their global revenue if they don’t do enough to remove hateful content from their network. The report comes after Facebook allowed a team of French regulators to spend six months inside the company monitoring its policies. “For us, the alternative to these melodramatic calls for breaking up companies is exactly what we’re discussing here, which is proper regulation.
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