The fact that immigrants are currently destroying large parts of France is due to computer games and social media, according to the country’s President Emmanuel Macron. The liberal profile suggests more censorship as a solution to the problem.
For three nights in a row, hair-raising scenes have unfolded in cities and suburbs across France.
Large immigrant mobs vandalize and burn down police stations and city halls, loot and generally create utter chaos.
40,000 police officers have been called in to try to curb the violence.
President Emmanuel Macron, during a crisis meeting on Friday, singled out two things that could be behind the immigrant riots: social media and computer games.
Social media platforms have played a significant role in the events of recent days, Macron said, singling out Tiktok and Snapchat in particular as problematic platforms that need more censorship.
On these platforms, videos from the riots have been widely distributed, which the liberal president now wants to put an end to.
According to Macron, social media is not only helping rioters to organize. They also make young people want to “imitate” the behavior they see.
According to the president, these young people have lost their grip on reality because of what they see on social media and the computer games they play.
– It sometimes feels like some of them on the street are reliving the video games that intoxicated them, he said.
That Emmanuel Macron blames immigrant violence on computer games has quickly attracted negative attention, including from gaming magazines such as PC Gamer.
The French news site Numerama states that there is no scientific evidence that computer games make people more violent.
Macron désigne deux responsables aux émeutes : les réseaux sociaux dont il réclame la censure et les jeux vidéos qui auraient intoxiqués les jeunes pic.twitter.com/tHhgAtASrz
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