Emile Marzolf

2 weeks ago | politico.eu | Eliza Gkritsi |Ellen O'Regan |Emile Marzolf |Klara Durand

PARIS — France's President Emmanuel Macron is set on banning kids from social media.  All that stands in his way are legal fights, glitchy tech, a powerful lobby of Big Tech and Big Porn — and kids being kids. Macron said late Tuesday that France "can't wait" any longer in banning social media for children under 15, in response to the fatal stabbing of a teaching assistant at a high school in the suburbs of Paris.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Emile Marzolf |Eliza Gkritsi

8 hours agoAround 10 French clients with leases on Teslas are suing the US carmaker, run by Elon Musk, because they consider the vehicles to be "extreme-right" symbols, the law firm representing them said on Wednesday. They feel they suffered "direct and concrete" damage from the way Teslas are now associated …

2 weeks ago | politico.eu | Emile Marzolf |Eliza Gkritsi

PARIS — French authorities are seriously considering restricting public access to some of the world's most popular social media sites to prevent children from accessing pornography and to stop them being radicalized. French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday said he wants to ban social media for under-15s in France “in the coming months” if there’s no progress on EU-wide measures, after the murder of a teaching assistant in a high school that morning.

2 weeks ago | politico.eu | Emile Marzolf

The French government is considering designating X as a porn platform — a move that will likely have the platform implementing strict age verification requirements. Such a designation could effectively ban children from accessing the social media app unless it curtailed adult content. Paris has recently upped its efforts to protect kids online by requiring age verification by porn platforms. “X has indicated since 2024 that it accepts the distribution of pornographic content.

3 weeks ago | politico.eu | Emile Marzolf

PARIS — Le réseau social X sera-t-il prochainement interdit aux mineurs en France ? Le gouvernement menace en tout cas d’obliger la plateforme à vérifier l’âge de ses utilisateurs, au même titre que les sites à caractère pornographique. Clara Chappaz, la ministre déléguée à l’IA et au Numérique, a indiqué à POLITICO son intention de qualifier le réseau d’Elon Musk comme un site porno. “X indique depuis 2024 accepter la diffusion de contenus pornographiques.