This is a very significant statement. “Trust is declining” in platforms Meta, X (formerly Twitter) and Google in their mission to regulate online content, Emmanuel Macron criticized on Friday in Paris.
For Meta and Google, “the fact that no Top manager was neither in New York in September nor here in Paris, which means they don’t want to play anymore,” the French President complained at the opening of the 5th Christchurch Call summit to combat terrorism and violent acts. extremist content.
Among the companies represented on Friday afternoon at the Elysee Palace were X, Amazon, Dailymotion, Microsoft, OpenAI and even Qwant. But neither Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, nor Google, whose main service is YouTube.
Moderation has come under criticism
“When I was told that there are 52 moderators on the site, he continued with irony: “These 52 people are geniuses or they have a lot of work.”
“Second people are no longer serious, we are becoming less accommodating,” he insisted. “When companies that were committed, who told us great things, organize themselves so as not to be present and do what they said, trust declines, especially when others continue to do the same,” added Emmanuel Macron.
“There is no TikTok at the table, because we need to clarify the statuses, and there are already 687 of them(moderators). I say this to create competition, good competition,” he said.
The French head of state is presiding over the 5th summit of the Christchurch Call, launched by New Zealand following the attack in the New Zealand city in March 2019, to “better combat terrorist and violent extremist content.”
Source: Le Parisien
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