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After Twitter banned political ads, the main focus of the debate was Facebook's strategy in this area. LOIC VENANCE / AFP

Representatives of the Parliaments of nine countries gathered Thursday, November 7 in Dublin for the 3rd international committee on fake news. Representatives of social networks talked about misinformation, the development of hate speech. After Twitter banned political ads, the main focus of the debate was Facebook's strategy in this area.

With our correspondent in Dublin, Emeline Vin

From the outset, the representative of Facebook Monika Bickert recalled the actions of the social network against fake news: hunt for false accounts, purposes of promotions on political ads. But she ruled out their ban, whether true or false: " We are not the police of the world and we do not remove content just because they are fake. We do not have to determine, in the place of citizens, what they can or can not see in terms of veracity on the part of their politicians. In the audience of politicians, there is a high probability that at least one person knows if something is wrong, and spread the word ! "

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This argument was quickly defeated by US Senator David Cicilline because of the micro-targeting of advertisements offered by Facebook. " Politicians can micro-target their ads with Facebook," he said. For example, to men, 55 to 75, who drive trucks and watch Fox News. This strongly limits the dissemination of certain publications. True or false ? " There are limits in accuracy, but yes, that's true, " said Monika Bickert.

At the end of the day, parliamentarians pledged to propose laws in their respective countries to put in place a moratorium on micro-targeted false ads. An undated commitment but the participants hope that it will push the giants of the net to act.