Emmanuel Macron meets tech companies at the Elysée palace

French president Emmanuel Macron has held a meeting with about 60 key figures of the tech industry, including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Uber’s Dara Khosrowshahi and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella. During the meeting, he reportedly warned the industry that they cannot just be ‘free riding’ without giving back to society and helping to improve ‘social situations, inequalities, [and] climate change’. The issue of taxation was one of the key discussion topics. In addition, with the meeting, Macron hoped to boost investment and jobs in France, especially in the area of artificial intelligence. Macron also discussed issues as data protection, hate speech, and fake news with the technology companies.