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    Macron critica la difesa della libertà di parola dei social media definendola una “stronzata”

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    1. bloomberg on

      *From Bloomberg News reporter Ania Nussbaum:*

      French President Emmanuel Macron said the free speech defense of social media platforms is “pure bullshit,” pushing back against a key foreign policy goal of President Donald Trump.

      European nations including the UK and Germany are weighing social media bans for minors, with regulators saying the services are harmful and addictive. That could have an impact on critical advertising dollars for companies including Instagram and Facebook, Snap, Elon Musk’s X, TikTok and Google’s YouTube.

      “Some of them claim to be in favor of free speech — OK, we are in favor of free algorithms — totally transparent,” Macron said. “Free speech is pure bullshit if nobody knows how you are guided to this so-called free speech, especially when it is guided from one hate speech to another.”

    2. icecube1965 on

      Free speech is indeed bullshit if judged by some American companies and US administration. Free speech is speech that suits them …. if it doesn’t suit them it’s no longer allowed.

    3. Doc_Bader on

      Social Media companies don’t give a flying fuck about free speech – or any other moral guideline for what it’s worth.

      The only metric they care about is engagement, which leads to more clicks, which leads to more ad revenue, that’s it. And algorithmically steered infinite scroll ragebait and fake bullshit is one hell of an engagement machine.

    4. notveryamused_ on

      Yeah, when Americans say free speech, they mean unregulated, intransparent algorithms owned by far-right billionaires lol. And they’re perfectly aware of it themselves.

      EU made a mistake during the tariff rift in the last year in my opinion, this was a good chance to respond calmly while in fact regulating US-owned social media fucking up our public debate for good.

    5. Extension-Ebb6410 on

      Free Speech in the context of Social Media is indeed bullshit. But People getting Brainwashed to think being able to access social media is somehow free speech.

    6. 75bytes on

      preaching for years that algos are cancer. even before orangeman. at last some incentives about it. same for ID, it’s good measure vs manipulation. i dont get cries about privacy, but it’s fine without algos to keep internet anonimous, if you remember 00s era it was fine.

    8. CucumberBoy00 on

      I mean if internet Profiling and ID verification stopped at Social Media I’d be all for it

    9. UEG-sacrificablesu75 on

      Free speech existed way before socials were a thing. Social medias aren’t a requirement for free speech.

    10. Th3GreatPretender on

      I’ve said this before, these fascist types are clever in using free speech as way to spread discord in society. They have the “don’t look behind the curtains” attitude and expect everyone to be placid while they destroy civil society.

    11. JuliusCaesar121 on

      God I love having a first amendment enshrined in a written constitution 

    12. Visual_Title9363 on

      That’s a great quote IMO
      Just like food standards, why shouldn’t consumers know how online content are cooked up and served? It’s being ingested hourly and raising our blood pressure, cholesterol levels.

    13. Overall_Side_7159 on

      Can’t wait for this jackass to be drummed out of office. Prancing around on the world stage when 70% of the country’s population cannot stand the sight of him. Using every dirty trick in the book to sidestep democracy because he doesn’t like the results.

    14. AmbitiousReaction168 on

      It’s fucking rich coming from a guy who’s using the (social) media to weaponize the death of a neo-nazi to crush the left. Again with this POS, it’s all talk, no action.

    15. presaelettrica on

      I agree with the statement but on a side note, what’s up with the language? The orange turd should not set a precedent with his use of bad words. He is a moron with no respect for the formality and importance of the position he holds, so in a way you can expect him to talk like he’s in a pub even when he is the president of the US. But my man Macron could have used better words imo

    17. Maleficent-Hat-7521 on

      Il problema é confondere libertà di espressione con libertà d odio e libertà di insulto. Inoltre Cambridge analytica ha mostrato che é possibile manipolare le masse.

    18. Naive_Personality367 on

      “You cant do this because then we can’t advertise to kids” is an extremely fucked up and extremely american thing to say.

    19. lars_rosenberg on

      The title is quite misleading tbh. The full quote sounds much better.

    20. Moist-Ninja-6338 on

      I wish this guy would follow the footsteps of his soul mate – Justin Trudeau

    22. Kevinc62 on

      Well, he’s not wrong.

      I just want someone to create a replacenent already for these US/Chinese companies.

    23. SamuelVimesTrained on

      Free speech – from the same platforms that are running to hand over data about people making “non positive remarks about ICE / DHS etc” – that free speech??

    25. ssushi-speakers on

      Free speech is great, but by far, like 99.9999% of internet free speech is anonymous. This was not the original circumstances of free speech. It was never anonymous, and you generally had to own the consequences of it.

      Most people wouldn’t say the things they write to that person’s face. Or even write it if their actual name and photo was associated with it.

      Anonymous internet free speech is BS. It’s an unnatural expectation.

    27. fpPolar on

      You all better be careful here. You might say something Macron doesn’t like and get in trouble. 

    28. _hhhnnnggg_ on

      Honestly, we are caught between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, social media (and big tech companies in general) are a menace to society, and young people are very, very vulnerable to them, especially when they are born in this age.

      On the other hand, the whole ban for minors is a slippery slope for ID control, which is a severe violation of privacy and opens another can of worms for security issues.

      Can we just… get rid of the algorithm of something?

    30. dat_9600gt_user on

      By Ania Nussbaum

      February 18, 2026 at 2:05 PM UTC

      **French President Emmanuel Macron said the free speech defense of social media platforms is “pure bullshit,” pushing back against a key foreign policy goal of President Donald Trump.**

      European nations including the UK and Germany are weighing social media bans for minors, with regulators saying the services are harmful and addictive. That could have an impact on critical advertising dollars for companies including Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram and Facebook, Snap Inc., Elon Musk’s X, TikTok and Google’s YouTube.

      The US has criticized such bans, saying they censor free speech. The US recently imposed visa bans on a former European official and activists for trying to police online hate speech, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio justifying the moves as pushback against the “global censorship-industrial complex.”

      “Having no clue about how their algorithm is made, how it’s tested, trained and where it will guide you — the democratic consequences of this bias could be huge,” Macron said Wednesday in New Delhi.

      “Some of them claim to be in favor of free speech — OK, we are in favor of free algorithms — totally transparent,” Macron said. “Free speech is pure bullshit if nobody knows how you are guided to this so-called free speech, especially when it is guided from one hate speech to another.”

      Macron warned earlier this month that he expects the European Union to have a clash with Trump over the bloc’s regulation of digital services and that countries like France and Spain could be targeted by the US as a result of their proposed social media bans for children.

      In the US’s national security strategy, the Trump administration said it would fight back against efforts by foreign powers to “censor our discourse” or curtail free speech. It added that the US would cultivate “resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations,” viewed as a tacit offer of support for Europe’s far-right parties.

      Vice President JD Vance, speaking last year at the Munich Security Conference, accused the EU of suppressing free speech and said Europe’s retreat from its fundamental values was a bigger threat to the continent than Russia or China. Calling Trump Washington’s “new sheriff,” Vance slammed attempts to moderate speech on social media.

      Some EU officials were concerned that the US was using free speech as a pressure point to cow the bloc into softening its regulation of technology platforms, Bloomberg reported earlier.

      US tech moguls have at times invoked free speech principles to push back against tighter oversight. Earlier this month, after Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez criticized social media, Elon Musk wrote: “Dirty Sánchez is a tyrant and traitor to the people of Spain.”

      Macron is attending an artificial intelligence summit in New Delhi as he seeks to strengthen Franco-Indian ties, with both nations reassessing their relationship with a more hostile US under Trump.

      During his visit, the French president has promoted a vision of multilingual, regulated AI that differs from the more market-driven US approach and the state-led Chinese model.

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