Dominique de Villepin: Shifting platforms to publisher status, liable for what their algorithms amplify
Proposal put forward by Dominique de Villepin on July 23, 2026. Topic: Rights, Freedoms and Disinformation. The observatory also publishes quotes from 10 other public figures on this topic.
A battle needs to be waged, at the European scale, the only truly relevant one, for platforms to move from host status to that of publisher, legally responsible for what their algorithms amplify, with visibility obligations for national and European creative work.
Original quote (French)
Un combat demande à être mené, à l’échelle européenne, seule réellement pertinente, pour le passage des plateformes du statut d’hébergeur à celui d’éditeur, juridiquement responsables de ce que leurs algorithmes amplifient, avec obligations de visibilité de la création nationale et européenne.Source: lafrancehumaniste.fr · archived copy
Other candidates on this topic
- Antoine Mikolajczak: Require digital platforms to prove the absence of addictive mechanisms before any launch
- Bruno Retailleau: Ban any administrative refusal based solely on the output of an automated system
- Emmanuel Maurel: Regulating, or even banning, addictive social media algorithms
- Gabriel Attal: Require transparency of social media algorithms to allow researchers to study them
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon: Strengthening the CNIL's resources to ensure the application of the GDPR's security requirements
- Juan Branco: Impose transparency of social network algorithms
- Marine Tondelier: Adopt European legislation (AI Act II) establishing a right to opt out of AI in software
- Nicolas Dupont-Aignan: Ban biases and filters introduced into AI by service providers
- Olivier Becht: Create a constitutional High Authority for transparency and privacy, formed by merging the CNIL, the HATVP and the CADA
- Raphaël Glucksmann: Imposing Rules by Design Against Addictive Social Media Algorithms
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