'No free lunch', Macron tells Zuckerberg and other tech bosses
by Angelique Chrisafisin Paris, Jennifer Rankin and a from Technology | The Guardian on (#3QTWM)
French president demands commitments from Silicon Valley to give back to society
The French president Emmanuel Macron has warned a gathering of global tech bosses - including Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg - that they cannot ride the coattails of the digital economy without giving back to society.
Macron told key tech figures at the Elysi(C)e palace on Wednesday that they could not just be "free riding" without taking into account the common good. He called on them to help improve "social situations, inequalities, climate change."
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