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French President Emmanuel Macron has denied allegations that the government wants to restrict press freedom to protect the police.
"This is a big lie," said Macron on Friday in a live interview with the online platform "Brut".
"We are not Hungary or Turkey."
France was “distorted” in the debate about a draft law to protect police officers from filming, said Macron in an interview with the Internet platform for young people.
He accused critics of the bill for "militant and anti-government" statements.
Journalists' associations had accused the government of criminalizing media representatives with planned imprisonment and fines for filming or taking photos of police operations.
Reporters Without Borders spoke again of a "threat to press freedom" in France on Friday.
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The government majority in parliament has now announced that they want to revise the controversial film ban in the security law.
However, it is not yet known exactly how the article will be changed.
The National Assembly had already approved the project in the first reading.
Erdogan hopes France will get rid of Macron soon
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dealt again against his French counterpart.
He wanted France to get rid of the "anger" Emmanuel Macron as soon as possible, Erdogan said after the Friday prayers in Istanbul.
If not, France will not be able to overcome the yellow vests protest movement that denounces social injustice in the country.
Erdogan also accused France of having lost its credibility as a mediator in the Minsk group, which was created in the 1990s to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
France sided with Armenia in the conflict, while Turkey sided with Azerbaijan.
Erdogan and Macron each brought out heavy artillery rhetorically.
France and Turkey are at odds over a number of issues, from questions about freedom of expression and Islamophobia, natural gas reserves and their extraction in the eastern Mediterranean, to actions in civil war Libya.