The Instagram accounts of two members of the editorial staff of "Charlie Hebdo" Laure Daussy and Corinne Rey were suspended on the weekend of September 5 and 6, after the two women published the last cover of the newspaper which republished the cartoons of Muhammad .
The social network has publicly reacted and explained the origin of the problem.
Has Instagram censored
Charlie Hebdo
?
That's what we thought this weekend, but the reality is a little different.
Saturday evening, the journalist Laure Daussy indicated on Twitter that her Instagram account had been suspended after the publication of the front page of the satirical newspaper, which republishes the caricatures of Mohammed from 2006. Sunday morning, it was the turn of the account of the designer Corinne Rey, known as "Coco", to suffer the same fate.
The two women are members of the weekly editorial staff.
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Like my colleague from @Charlie_Hebdo_, @LaureDaussy, my #Instagram account was deactivated following the broadcast of the “Tout ça pour ça” cover with the #caricatures of #Mahomet
Quite simply scandalous.
pic.twitter.com/kwHnq4obnx
- Corinne (@cocoboer) September 6, 2020
A "raid" of Internet users
Instagram's reaction sounds like censorship, and many people have interpreted it that way.
The reality, different, is due to the functioning of the social network, provides direction.
"The accounts were deleted by mistake and we reinstated them as soon as this was brought to our attention," explained Instagram's communication service to
Le Figaro
.
The Instagram accounts of the editorial staff of the satirical newspaper were in fact the victims of a "raid".
In other words, users of the social network have reported en masse the publication of the journalist and the designer.
Their accounts were therefore automatically suspended, before being re-established.
A very common practice on social networks, especially used in cases of group harassment on a victim.
This attack surprisingly would not have targeted
Charlie Hebdo's
own Instagram account
.
The newspaper had also shared its front page, but was neither censored nor suspended.