“Trust is reduced” with the platforms Meta, the fight against terrorist and violent extremist content. For Meta and Google, “the fact that no ‘top manager’ was available either in New York in September, or here in Paris, means that they no longer want to play,” lamented the French president.
52 moderators for X in French
Among the companies represented on Friday afternoon at the Elysée were X, Amazon, Dailymotion, Microsoft, OpenAI and even Qwant. But neither Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, nor Google, of which Youtube is one of the main services. “When I am told that there are 52 moderators for , he continued, before ironically: “these 52 people are geniuses or have a lot of work”.
“The second people are no longer serious, we become less cooperative,” he insisted. “When companies that were committed, had told us great things, organize themselves not to be there and do not do what they said, trust is reduced, especially when others continue to do the same. work,” added Emmanuel Macron. “TikTok is not there at the table because we have to clarify the statuses, but they already have 687 (moderators). I say it to create competition, good competition,” he said. noted.
The French head of state chairs the 5th summit of the Christchurch appeal, launched with New Zealand after the attack in this New Zealand city in March 2019, to better “fight against terrorist and violent extremist content in line”.