France’s Macron faces backlash after calls to ‘cut off’ social media following riots from police shooting of 17-year-old | South China Morning Post

• Macron called for powers to ‘cut off’ social media in case of widespread violence like riots over the past week following the police shooting of 17-year-old Nahel M
• Opposition politicians from the left and right attacked the proposal, with one lawmaker comparing the French president to North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in a tweet

Published: 9:21pm, 5 Jul, 2023

Updated: 9:24pm, 5 Jul, 2023