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Macron has declared war on free speech…

Emmanuel Macron says Europeans should stop relying on social media for their news and turn back to traditional public media. Speaking in Paris on Wednesday, he said people were ‘completely wrong’ to use social networks for information and should instead depend on journalists and established outlets. Social platforms, he argued, are driven by a ‘process of maximum excitement’ designed to ‘maximize advertising revenue’, a system he said is ‘destroying the foundations of democratic debate’.

He accused X of being ‘dominated by far-right content’ and added that the platform was no longer neutral because its owner had ‘decided to take part in the democratic struggle and in the international reactionary movement’. TikTok, he warned, was no less dangerous. Macron called for ‘a much stronger agenda of protection and regulation in Europe’ to rein in what he views as the excesses of social networks.

Macron is urging Europe to ‘take back control of our democratic and informational life’. This is not the first time that he has spoken in such terms. France and its allies, he warned, have been ‘naïve’ in allowing their public debate to be shaped by foreign-owned platforms and algorithms that no longer respect neutrality. To counter what he calls ‘a crisis of information’, he wants a new ‘European agenda of protection and regulation’. It is, in effect, a plan to bring the digital sphere under far stricter political control.

Macron’s comments are an attack on how an entire generation gets its news. Over 40 per cent of people under 30 and nearly half of 18- to 30-year-olds now rely on social media for news. He appears to believe they should return to the days of reading and watching state-controlled media. The suggestion is astonishing. It’s frightening to even have to write this but democracy depends on access to competing points of view, not on state-managed television and subsidised newspapers. Macron cannot seriously believe that it would be good for democracy if Europeans were driven back to getting their news from government-aligned networks.

Macron also blamed foreign interference, accusing Russia of being ‘the biggest buyer of fake accounts’ aiming to destabilise European democracies. ‘We’re facing interference on steroids’, he said. Macron has previously cited alleged manipulation of online content during recent elections in Eastern Europe, which he called ‘terrifying’. Yet observers found little evidence of large-scale manipulation in those cases. What really unsettled Paris and Brussels was often the result of those elections and the rejection of EU-backed candidates. His warnings about fake accounts look less like a defence of democracy than an argument for tightening state control over speech.

The logical consequence of what Macron is proposing is that to abolish ‘fake accounts’ you must abolish anonymity itself. If Macron is serious about ending fake accounts, and he keeps repeating that he is, the only way to do that is through digital identity. His plan leads inevitably to a system where anyone who wants to post or comment online must first prove who they are.