Overview
- At the Élysée on Oct. 28, Emmanuel Macron gathered about 200 researchers, practitioners and civic leaders to draft proposals by December and launch a small “platform of action.”
- Speaking at the Paris Peace Forum on Oct. 29, he urged a stronger European framework to curb platform-driven amplification of sensational content and warned of large-scale foreign manipulation.
- Macron asserted that Russian actors are major buyers of fake accounts used to destabilize European democracies, and he criticized X for promoting far-right content to users.
- Roughly 30 countries, including France, the U.K., Ukraine and Brazil, adopted a declaration supporting information integrity and independent media, with pledges to deepen multilateral cooperation.
- Participants floated measures such as public-interest, non-profit social networks with transparent algorithms, supervisory counter-algorithms, and pre-election quiet periods, while noting gaps in enforcement and stalled French decrees under the 2023 online safety law.