PARIS (Reuters) – Giant social media platforms like TikTok and Snapchat ought to co-operate with French authorities to settle down violence which has erupted this week following the killing of a 17-year previous by a police officer, President Emmanuel Macron stated on Friday.
“Social media platforms play a big position within the occasions of the previous few days”, Macron stated in televised remarks from a authorities emergency assembly.
Citing TikTok and Snapchat, he stated social media assist rioters organise themselves but in addition contributed to “mimicking” behaviour by some younger folks, who repeated what they noticed on-line and misplaced monitor of actuality.
“It typically looks like a few of them re-live within the streets the video video games which have intoxicated them,” he stated.
The federal government will work with social networks in direction of withdrawing “probably the most delicate sorts of content material” and is asking social media corporations to open up to French authorities the identities of “those that use these social networks to name for dysfunction and promote violence”.
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(Reporting by Tassilo Hummel, enhancing by Michel Rose)
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