Paris (AFP)
TikTok, the popular platform for young people, has banned polemicist Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala from its network, condemned multiple times for his hate speech, following in the footsteps of its competitors YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.
"Dieudonné's account has been banned from the platform," a spokesperson for TikTok France told AFP on Wednesday, without detailing the reasons for this ban.
Beyond this particular case, the network would like to point out that "TikTok has a very strict moderation policy and that all content that does not respect its rules is banned from the application".
Frédéric Potier, the interministerial delegate for the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT hatred, greeted this ban on Twitter and called on the blue bird network to do the same.
Several other online platforms have already banned Dieudonné from their users since the beginning of the summer, in the name of the fight against hate content.
YouTube (which belongs to Google) started the ball rolling at the end of June by deleting the polemicist's channel, due to repeated violations of its rules.
Facebook and its Instagram subsidiary followed suit in early August and in turn banned him, accusing him of posting "content mocking the victims of the Holocaust" and using "dehumanizing terms against Jews. ".
Accustomed to the courts, Dieudonné has been condemned several times by the courts for his hate speech. His last conviction dates back to November: he was fined 9,000 euros for complicity in an anti-Semitic insult, after the publication of a video and a song entitled "C'est mon choaaa".
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