Emmanuel Macron and Mark Zuckerberg discussed the regulation of social networks

French President Emmanuel Macron and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg spoke in Paris on Friday. strategies to combat violent and hateful content online.

At a time of great pressure for the regulation of social networks, France plans to promote a law that requires social networks to suppress hate messages within 24 hours, on pain of fine, and wishes to promote such regulation at European level.

Macron has repeatedly called on Facebook to take responsibility Zuckerberg himself recently asked governments to play a more active role in controlling Internet content.

During his meeting with the French President, the young American billionaire suggested to limit the "virality" of the problematic content, for example, preventing it from being reused or suggested to other users, explained the Élysée Palace.

On the legislation that France plans to adopt, Facebook's founder has shown "optimistic". "I'm sure this can become a model" used "in the European Union," Zuckerberg told reporters.

Macron and Zuckerberg also sent a report on "The responsibility of social networks", prepared by French officials to whom Facebook has opened its doors in recent months explain how they identify and remove the indicated content from their platforms.

In the report, officials propose establishment of an independent administrative authority in each European country, responsible for the application of a principle of "transparency" on how social networks prioritize and moderate the content published by its users.

"The inadequacy and lack of credibility of the self-regulatory initiatives developed by the larger platforms warrant public intervention to hold them to account."that he reaches a balance between his freedom and the interests of the state," says the report.

This is not the first time that Macron and Zuckerberg meet. They have already done so in May 2018 in the first edition of "Tech for Good", a meeting at which leaders of digital giants explained how they could contribute to common goods such as education or health.