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The French government vowed to bring social media giants 'under control' following the role of online platforms in the beheading of a teacher in Paris

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Samuel Paty, 47, was killed on Friday in what President Emmanuel Macron called an "Islamist terrorist attack." "Things began on social media and they ended on social media," said Gabriel Attal, the French government spokesman.The French government said Tuesday it would bring social media giants "under control," following the role that online platforms played in the beheading of a history teacher in Paris on Friday.

The government on Monday called in representatives of Facebook, Twitter, Google, TikTok, Snapchat, and other social media firms for a meeting on "cyber-Islamism," asking them to take more responsibility for content on their platforms. in connection with the attack on Paty. The Paris police later shot dead the suspected attacker — identified by local media as Abdoulakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old Chechen refugee — near the scene of the attack.

 

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