# Ardern and Macron launch the Christchurch Call with states and online platforms

Date: 2019

## The fact

On 15 May 2019 [Jacinda Ardern](/people/jacinda-ardern) and [Emmanuel Macron](/people/emmanuel-macron) launched the Christchurch Call, a commitment by governments and online service providers to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online.

## Context

The Call is political, not a New Zealand criminal code for Silicon Valley. Platforms implement. Free-speech critics treated it as extra-legal pressure. Mixed rights costs of over-removal sit as context; a later worsening speech-bill row is separate. Macron is the co-author, not a bystander.

2023 Special Envoy appointment is a later personnel Fact. 15 March and 10 April remain other dates.

A New Zealand prime minister chairs Cabinet and can recommend orders and bills. The House enacts. Police, DHBs, MIQ contractors, and platform companies implement. That office is not authorship of WHO guidance, Australian law, or a later successor’s repeal.

## Evidence and sources

Christchurch Call carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

Platform-regulation path from a completed inter-state/platform commitment.

## What is established and what is not

Established: The Christchurch Call launched on 15 May 2019 with Ardern as co-founder.

Not established: That any named later livestream was blocked solely by this document.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Platforms and other states signed. She does not operate Facebook’s ranker.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Ardern and Macron launch the Christchurch Call with states and online platforms, not a later speech about Ardern and Macron launch the Christchurch Call with states and online platforms.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Ardern and Macron launch the Christchurch Call with states and online platforms on 2019-05-15 is not a licence to treat every later Christchurch Call communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Ardern and Macron launch the Christchurch Call with states and online platforms into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to She co-founded the Call with Macron. Platforms and other states signed. She does not operate Facebook’s ranker. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Jacinda Ardern: https://factrail.ai/people/jacinda-ardern

## Drivers

- Digital-Rights and Platform-Power Regulation: https://factrail.ai/drivers/tech-digital-rights-regulation

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-newzealand-facebook-idUSKCN1SL0Y20190515
- https://www.christchurchcall.com/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/christchurch-call-2019