This collaboration between Facebook and state authorities will only be valid for France.
In the fight against the bad guys, Facebook and France have decided to make common cause. In an interview with Reuters, then taken over by our colleagues Le Figaro, Secretary of State Digital Cédric O announced Tuesday that the social network had agreed to provide the French justice the necessary elements to help him clearly identify users of hateful content on the platform.
Facebook will provide IPs of suspects to justice
Did the May 10 meeting at the Élysée between Emmanuel Macron and Mark Zuckerberg accelerate or even contribute to this announcement by Cédric O? Without a doubt. Anyway, Facebook has made a commitment to communicate to the French justice the IP addresses of Internet users making comments or posting hate content on the social network at thumbs up.
The Secretary of State states that " in view of the discussions they had with us, they would transmit the IP addresses for hate content online that would be requested by the justice ." The contained racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic fall within the scope of this collaboration.
A link between a private company and the state that can ask questions
The commitment made by Facebook to identify suspected users is a real exception since France is the only country concerned. Beyond the salutary aspect of the thing, is the question of the link that will unite the private company Facebook, one of the giants of the digital world entangled in many scandals on the personal data and the litigious contents, and French justice, one of the pillars of the state.
In the meantime, parliamentarians will have to consider and discuss a government-sponsored bill to better tackle hate content on the Web's multiple platforms.
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