Social networks must help stamp out promotion of violence: France

France appealed for United Nations member states to work together on an international legal framework that would make social network providers share responsibility for the use of their platforms to spread messages promoting violence. "There are hate videos, calls for death, propaganda that has not been responded to, and we need to respond," Harlem Desir, French State Secretary for European Affairs said. "We must limit the dissemination of these messages," she added. "We must ... establish a legal framework so the Internet platforms, the large companies managing social networking, so that they're called upon to act responsibly."