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PARIS \u2014 The shock caused by the beheading of a teacher<\/a> in Paris has reignited the conversation in France about social media regulation.<\/p>\n

Several ministers called for stricter rules after it emerged that Samuel Paty, the victim, had been threatened on social media for showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in his class before being killed on Friday.<\/p>\n

French representatives from Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and Snapchat have been summoned to a meeting by the minister in charge of citizenship, Marl\u00e8ne Schiappa, on Tuesday morning. The companies have been asked to come up with \u201cconcrete proposals\u201d about \u201ccyber-Islamism,\u201d an official said.<\/p>\n

On Monday morning<\/a>, Interior Minister G\u00e9rald Darmanin said he wanted to fight \u201csocial networks\u2019 terrorist propaganda.\u201d Authors of 80 posts that expressed support for the attacker are being monitored, the government said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThose who participated in the public lynching of this teacher are, in some way, responsible for what happened,\u201d Gabriel Attal, a government spokesperson, said Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The strong reaction came after it emerged that the father of one of Paty\u2019s students had taken to social media <\/a>to express his anger at the teacher and called for his dismissal. The teacher, who had shown caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad as part of a class on freedom of speech, had reportedly offered students the option to leave the classroom if they were offended by the images.<\/p>\n

The father\u2019s posts were later shared<\/a> via Facebook groups and WhatsApp messages \u2014 drawing attention from radical groups, including the terrorist.<\/p>\n

The chain of events shed an unpleasant light on what has been done \u2014 and not been done \u2014 in the country to tackle a decade-old problem. Earlier this year, the country\u2019s constitutional court struck down<\/a> a draft law that was meant to limit the spread of hateful content on social media<\/p>\n

The lawmaker behind the draft law, Laetitia Avia, from Emmanuel Macron\u2019s La R\u00e9publique en Marche party, said she\u2019s still working on tackling hate speech<\/a> and is considering a new bill, among other options. Other MPs from the opposition, including conservative leader Christian Jacob, said<\/a> they would also make proposals to regulate social media content and anonymity on the internet as a way to fight terrorism.<\/p>\n

But while groups involved in the fight against hate speech online have criticized the role of social media, they also highlighted gaps in existing rules, saying the government hasn\u2019t put its money where its mouth is. <\/p>\n

Paty had filed a complaint<\/a> to the police after he was made aware of threats coming from social media. He also alerted his bosses. An NGO reported the terrorist\u2019s Twitter account to authorities, French media Le Point<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

NGOs have \u201cdedicated channels with tech platforms as trusted flaggers,\u201d Dominique Sopo, head of the NGO SOS Racisme said. But the fight against hate speech \u201chasn\u2019t been the government\u2019s priority,\u201d he argued. \u201cAs the police resources were not sufficient \u2026 not enough attention was paid to harassment in everyday life,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that moderation is a question of means,\u201d he said, calling for more transparency from platforms, including on staffing.<\/p>\n

France\u2019s legislative and administrative arsenal already tackles illegal content online and cyberbullying, highlighting how the issue lies with enforcement more than lack of rules. <\/p>\n

French law requires online platforms to remove illegal content once it\u2019s been flagged, as part of the EU\u2019s 2000 e-commerce directive. Since 2009, child sexual abuse material, racist and anti-Semitic comments, hate speech and terrorist propaganda can be flagged via a platform called Pharos. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s via Pharos that the terrorist\u2019s account was reported by an NGO, and it was also used to identify people who have expressed support for the terrorist after the attack. In 2019 alone, more than 228,000 reports were filed to the platform, according to the government<\/a>, which are handled by a team of 28 officers. <\/p>\n

In 2018, Schiappa shepherded a law against online bullying in groups. Sanctions include up to three years in prison and \u20ac30,000 fines. <\/p>\n

The latest legislative efforts to crack down on hate speech have, however, failed. MP Avia\u2019s law, which required platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to remove flagged hate speech within 24 hours, was almost completely struck down by the country\u2019s constitutional council. The council argued the text could threaten freedom of speech. <\/p>\n

Pressure up on social networks<\/h3>\n

Avia now wants parts of the aborted legislation to be included in the government\u2019s upcoming bill on \u201cseparatism,\u201d<\/a> meant to fight radical Islam, according to France Info<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cToday, I still don\u2019t know how many content moderators Twitter has and where they are,\u201d she told Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><\/p>\n

[contf] [contfnew] <\/p>\n

politico<\/a><\/h5>\n

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