{"id":2571273,"date":"2026-02-19T02:42:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/macron-calls-free-speech-pure-bulls-while-blasting-tech-company-executives\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T02:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:45:14","slug":"macron-calls-free-speech-pure-bulls-while-blasting-tech-company-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/macron-calls-free-speech-pure-bulls-while-blasting-tech-company-executives\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron calls free speech \u2018pure bulls***\u2019 while blasting tech company executives"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmacron-calls-free-speech-pure-bulls-while-blasting-tech-company-executives%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2571273&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>French President Emmanuel Macron criticized tech company executives for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-attorneys-condemn-impeachment-trial-citing-free-speech-protections-lack-of-due-process\/\" title=\"Trump attorneys condemn impeachment trial citing ... protections, lack of due process\">citing free speech<\/a> as a justification to avoid limiting harmful content, calling their stance \u201cpure nonsense.\u201d Speaking in New Delhi, he urged clarity in social-media algorithms, arguing that undisclosed biases and the way algorithms guide users can distort public discourse and threaten democracies.he also warned that europe has been too weak and naive in regulating online speech, urging tougher measures to curb misinformation and external interference. Macron advocates stronger youth protections,including banning under-15s from social media and phones in French high schools,and he supports EU plans to raise the minimum age for social-media access to 16 (with parental consent for 13- to 16-year-olds).  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Macron calls free speech &lsquo;pure bulls***&rsquo; while blasting tech company executives<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2509193\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>French President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/emmanuel-macron\/\">Emmanuel Macron<\/a> blasted tech company executives of social media platforms over refusals to limit or restrict speech. While speaking before a crowd in New Delhi, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/india\/\">India<\/a>, on Wednesday, Macron said the excuse used by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/states-push-to-rein-in-big-tech-as-federal-gears-grind-slow\/\" title=\"States Push to Rein in Big Tech as Federal Gears Grind Slow\">tech executives<\/a> citing free speech as the basis for the refusal to limit speech was &ldquo;pure bulls***.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Some of them claim to be in favor of free speech. We are in favor of free algorithms, totally transparent,&rdquo; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2026-02-18\/emmanuel-macron-takes-on-us-tech-giants\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> Macron. &ldquo;Free speech is pure bulls*** if nobody knows how you are guided to this so-called free speech, especially when it is guided from one hate speech to another.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/travel\/4460797\/dhs-shutdown-tsa-airport-delays\/\">Travel industry warns of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dhs-shutdown-strains-tsa-staffing-ahead-of-spring-break-season\/\" title=\"DHS shutdown strains TSA staffing ahead of spring break season\">rising airport strain amid partial shutdown&#038;nbsp<\/a>;&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4461445\/mark-zuckerberg-grilled-meta-targeting-teenagers-social-media-addiction-trial\/\">Zuckerberg grilled on Meta&#8217;s targeting of teenagers in social media addiction trial<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4462436\/virginia-dan-helmer-house-seat-redistricting\/\">Virginia Democrat running for new House seat created by his own redistricting plan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>He went on to criticize tech companies for their algorithms, explicitly claiming that a lack of admission or transparency into the origins and bases of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/social-media\/\">social media<\/a> algorithms is harmful and, as Macron put it, a danger to democracies worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;All the algorithms have biases, we know that,&rdquo; Macron <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmanuelmacron-calls-social-medias-free-speech-defense-pure-bullshit\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>. &ldquo;There is no doubt. And they are so impactful, when you speak about social media, that having no clue about how the algorithm is made, how it is tested, and where it will guide you &mdash; the democratic biases of this could be huge.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Macron&rsquo;s scolding on Wednesday of the tech executives who run social media platforms is the latest in a recent string of criticisms. While speaking at the Munich Security Conference last week, the French president <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4457830\/emmanuel-macron-europe-social-media-crackdown-too-weak\/\">warned<\/a> that Europe was &ldquo;too weak and too naive&rdquo; regarding speech on social media platforms. He stressed the dangers of allowing misinformation and &ldquo;foreign influence&rdquo; to operate without restriction or regulation, and the subsequent security risks in doing so.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are opening the Pandora box and allowing a lot of hate of speech in these platforms and social media,&rdquo; Macron <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4457830\/emmanuel-macron-europe-social-media-crackdown-too-weak\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in Munich. &ldquo;We are too weak and too naive vis-&agrave;-vis external interferences and foreign differences. No doubt, we should forbid the capacity of these guys to interfere in our public space, and we should ask this platform first to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >completely block trolls bots<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Macron has been an ardent supporter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-killed-during-protests-and-unrest-in-myanmar\/\" title=\"Two Killed During Protests And Unrest In Myanmar\">social media restrictions<\/a>, including limiting the age of users who could access social media platforms to children older than 15. He also called for his country to implement laws banning students from using cellphones in high schools, seeking to do so before the start of the 2026-2027 school year in France.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The brains of our children and adolescents are not for sale,&rdquo; Macron <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/01\/25\/europe\/macron-france-under-15-social-media-ban-intl\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in January to CNN&rsquo;s French affiliate BFMTV. &ldquo;Their emotions are not for sale or to be manipulated, whether by American platforms or Chinese algorithms.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4457830\/emmanuel-macron-europe-social-media-crackdown-too-weak\/\"><strong>MACRON WARNS EUROPEAN SOCIAL MEDIA CRACKDOWN HASN&rsquo;T GONE FAR ENOUGH: &lsquo;TOO WEAK&rsquo;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are banning social media for under-15s, and we are going to ban mobile phones in our high schools,&rdquo; Macron said. &ldquo;I believe this is a clear rule &ndash; clear for our teenagers, clear for families, clear for teachers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Support for social media bans for teenagers has reportedly grown across the European Union. Members of the European Parliament have rallied around legislation that would <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/en\/press-room\/20251120IPR31496\/children-should-be-at-least-16-to-access-social-media-say-meps\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prohibit<\/a> children under 16 from accessing social media.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To help parents manage their children&rsquo;s digital presence and ensure age-appropriate online engagement, Parliament proposes a harmonised EU digital minimum age of 16 for access to social media, video-sharing platforms and AI companions, while allowing 13- to 16-year-olds access with parental consent,&rdquo; read a November press release from European Parliament.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macron mocks &#8216;free speech&#8217; as hollow, blasts tech execs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2677,"featured_media":2571274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AP26022671669553.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[74079,72237,50979,74078],"class_list":["post-2571273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-france-politics-2","tag-free-speech-2","tag-macron-2","tag-tech-executives-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AP26022671669553.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2571273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2571277,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571273\/revisions\/2571277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2571274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}