2023-06-30 21:28:34
By EC with AFP
Posted yesterday at 5:20 p.m., Updated yesterday at 11:28 p.m.
After three nights of riots, Emmanuel Macron spoke this Friday. Proxima Studio – stock.adobe.com / AFP / YVES HERMAN
Ministers meet at 6 p.m. this Friday with digital platforms to “make several arrangements”.
Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter… thousands of videos and photos of the riots have been circulating on social networks in recent days. Some call for people to come together, others show uncovered, easily identifiable faces. For three nights, urban violence has taken place in several French cities, following the death of young Nahel during a police check in Nanterre. The video of the officer’s shot is also relayed en masse on the platforms.
Faced with this phenomenon, Emmanuel Macron spoke this Friday calling on the major social media platforms to “spirit of responsibility“. He notably cited Snapchat and TikTok where they organize “violent gatherings“which arouse”also a form of mimicry of violence, which leads the youngest to a form of leaving reality“. The Head of State has sometimes “the feeling that some of them live in the video games that have addicted them“, completed the president.
In a circular published this Friday, the Keeper of the Seals Éric Dupond-Moretti also indicated that he had asked the prosecutors to make legal requisitions against Snapchat-type operators. “I wish all these young people to know that we can perfectly find their IP address and of course their identity“, he insisted.
Representatives of Snapchat, TikTok, Meta, and Twitter were therefore invited Friday at 6 p.m. to the Ministry of the Interior for a meeting alongside Ministers Gérald Darmanin and Jean-Noël Barrot (Digital). Object, theto alert” on “their responsibilitiesin urban violence.
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Finding the identity of ‘those who call for disorder’
“We will take several measures in the coming hours (…) first in connection with these platforms, in order to organize the withdrawal of the most sensitive content“, had announced the president. Another presidential request, that of the cooperation of social networks with the investigators. “Requests will also be made, wherever useful and whenever useful, to obtain the identity of those who use thesenetworkssocialto call for disorder or to exacerbate violence“, specified Emmanuel Macron.
In a statement sent to Le Figaro, Snapchat says “proactively reviewing the Snap Map since Tuesday“, a tool that allows public and geolocated publication of short videos, in order to study content related to the riots. “We remove content that violates our guidelines“, as “incitement to hatred or violent behavior.“Snapchat however specifies”allow content that factually reports a situation.»
«In particular, the ministers reminded the platforms of their responsibility for the dissemination of these publications“, Indicates a press release from Place Beauvau after a meeting between the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, that of Digital Jean-Noël Barrot and digital platforms. And ask them toactively engage in urgently removing messages reported to them and identifying social media users who participate in the commission of offences, and respond promptly to requests from administrative and judicial authorities“. For his part, Meta explains “have clear policies prohibiting any content that incites hatred and violence on Facebook and Instagram». «We are in constant contact with the French authorities and we have set up a monitoring unit in the middle of the week to act as quickly as possible.“, continues the press release of the group.
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