French president Macron insists new regulations needed to protect us all from Facebook’s claws

By Kieren McCarthy in San Francisco

French president Emmanuel Macron has insisted that new laws are needed to limit and protect online content and the internet itself.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Paris, Macron made repeated calls for additional regulation, and complained about the “false alternative” of self-regulation or government control.