France's proposed approach, which is laid out in a 32-page report authored by Benoit Loutrel, a former Google employee and telecoms regulator official, emphasizes flexibility and does not call for penalties over individual failures to police content by the platforms. Instead it urges much more regular oversight by regulators, focusing mainly on the processes and resources used to identify and remove hate speech.
In that sense, the French idea embraces some measures of self-regulation by large platforms — even if the report maintains that a social media company could face fines of up to 4 percent of its global annual revenue in the event of serious and repeated breaches of a yet-to-be-voted on hate speech law.[...]
In addition to legislation on fake news, France has championed a digital tax on the European stage and set it in motion nationally following the move's failure at the EU level. A member of Macron's party is also pushing a law against online hate speech that would force platforms to bring down flagged posts within 24 hours — one that is likely to be informed by Friday's report.
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