10-05-2019 12:10 via 10tv.com

Facebook and France haggle over regulating online hate

PARIS (AP) — 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.Macron's office is releasing a progress report Friday on a pilot project that allows French regulators to embed within Facebook's facilities 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
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