How Sleeping Giants and Stop Hate Money tackle hate speech online
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The Sleeping Giants France Twitter account has nearly 20,000 subscribers.
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Simon Decreuze Follow
30 mins
The Media Workshop highlights two initiatives targeting the wallets of websites and media that propagate hateful and violent speech.
They are called Sleeping Giants France and Stop Hate Money.
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Sleeping Giants - the Sleeping Giants, in French - is a collective of activists that was born in November 2016 in the United States, just after the election of Donald Trump.
The objective was then to hurt the finances of the Breitbart site, an American conservative media that can be described as far-right and which played a role in Trump's accession to the White House.
How? 'Or' What ?
By pushing advertisers to remove their ads.
The Sleeping Giants collective now exists in around fifteen countries, including France.
In the first part of this show, we talk to
Rachel
, co-founder of
Sleeping Giants France
.
She begins by recounting the genesis of the French branch of this organization, in February 2017. She also explains how activists choose their targets and measure their success.
Finally, it justifies the importance of the anonymity of this commitment.
Sleeping Giants' approach has inspired other initiatives like
Stop Hate Money
, carried by
Conspiracy Watch
and piloted by
Tristan Mendès France
, which we hear in the second part of the show.
Associate lecturer at the University of Paris, specializing in digital cultures, he recalls that there is "
often a business
" behind sites promoting hate speech and conspiracy.
At the end of the program,
Mondoblog audio
gives the floor to Malian
Ousmane Makaveli
who explains that online mobilization is also developing in his country.
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