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Fbk' CEO, France’s Macron Meet over Online Extremism


Fri 10 May 2019 | 12:47 PM
Yassmine Elsayed

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is meeting French President Emmanuel Macron as the tech giant and France try to pioneer ways of fighting hate speech and violent extremism online, AP reported.

Macron's office released a progress report Friday on a pilot project that allows French regulators to embed within Facebook's facilities in order to observe how it monitors and removes racist or other content.

Friday's meeting comes amid concern about hate speech and disinformation around this month's European Parliament elections. Macron is pushing for more online regulation on a European level, despite opposition from the U.S. and free speech advocates.

Next week, leaders of France and New Zealand will meet tech leaders in Paris for a summit seeking to ban acts of violent extremism and terrorism from being shown online.