I don't think it's related. The thugs on the streets are teenagers who communicate mostly via Snapchat.
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Yeah, it may be... Or not..
Difficult to say. But we will never know.
Either case, Macron already blamed social media (in general) for the raise of the chaos: https://apnews.com/article/france-shooting-riots-social-media-tiktok-snapchat-c6328bdfbaf8be851c84416993e09cbf
In my opinion, all the governments - almost from every Country - to correlate social media with "bad things", so they get the sponsorship to be able to control it.
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