PARIS (Reuters) – The European Union will work in direction of an unprecedented regulation of social media platforms that will set up legal responsibility for hate-filled content material, French President Emmanuel Macron mentioned on Thursday.
“This is unprecedented European regulation to fight on-line hate, to outline the duty of those massive platforms for his or her content material,” Macron instructed a information convention in Paris.
“Every day, we’ve to take care of points corresponding to anti-Semitism, racism, hate speech and on-line harassment. There isn’t any worldwide regulation on these topics at this time, strictly talking.”
France takes over the rotating presidency of the 27-nation European Council in January.
(Reporting by Tassilo Hummel; Editing by Richard Lough and Mark Heinrich)
