Photo: Getty ImagesPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron will next month co-chair a meeting in Paris aimed at addressing how social media plays a part in promoting terrorism. "The March 15 terrorist attacks saw social media used in an unprecedented way as a tool to promote an act of terrorism and hate," Ardern said this morning. "We are asking for a show of leadership to ensure social media cannot be used again the way it was in the March 15 terrorist attack." "Social media platforms can connect people in many very positive ways, and we all want this to continue." But, Ardern said, for too long it has been possible to use social media platforms to o incite extremist violence, and even to distribute images of that violence, as happened in Christchurch.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 23, 2019 20:15 UTC