The draft private member’s bill seeks to address an increasing number of ‘influencers’ who garner views by recording the lives of their children.

A survey for the Observatory for Parenthood and Digital Education, a campaign group, found that the average child has its image shared on social media 1,300 times before the age of 13.

“There are parents making several thousand euros a month throwing spoonfuls of mashed potato at their children’s faces,” Thomas Rohmer, president of the Observatory, said. “These practices amount to digital violence while the battle was successfully fought to get rid of spanking and other humiliating practices.”

Bruno Studer, an Alsace MP for President Macron’s Renaissance party, advanced the bill in response to parents uploading videos of their small children and often humiliating them. Some toddlers in France have thousands of followers on social media platforms.

Campaigners are concerned with pranks which include parents throwing slices of processed cheese at babies’ faces before posting their reactions.

Mr Studer said parents also seem to be oblivious to the fact that the images being posted are often being exchanged by paedophiles on their forums.

“Certain images, notably photographs of naked babies or young girls in gym outfits, particularly interest paedophile circles,” Mr Studer’s bill details.

Furthermore, the images are often used later to bully young people.

Charlotte Caubel, junior minister for children, supports the legislation. She said: “We could suspend the parents’ exercise of the right to children’s images if they seriously abuse it. This is the case for those using the image to make money or boost their own image.”