PARIS, June 30 (Reuters) – Giant social media platforms like TikTok and Snapchat ought to co-operate with French authorities to relax violence which has erupted this week following the killing of a 17-year previous by a police officer, President Emmanuel Macron mentioned on Friday.
“Social media platforms play a big function within the occasions of the previous few days”, Macron mentioned in televised remarks from a authorities emergency assembly.
Citing TikTok and Snapchat, he mentioned social media assist rioters organise themselves but additionally contributed to “mimicking” behaviour by some younger individuals, who repeated what they noticed on-line and misplaced observe of actuality.
“It typically appears like a few of them re-live within the streets the video video games which have intoxicated them,” he mentioned.
The federal government will work with social networks in the direction of withdrawing “probably the most delicate kinds of content material” and is asking social media firms to speak in confidence to French authorities the identities of “those that use these social networks to name for dysfunction and promote violence”. (Reporting by Tassilo Hummel, modifying by Michel Rose)
