The documentary film "Hold-Up", available since last Wednesday on video platforms, develops vast conspiracy theories on the coronavirus epidemic.
For specialists in disinformation, we must fight now against its dissemination so as not to sow "confusion" in the minds of those who watch it.
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It would all be a vast global conspiracy.
This is the purpose of the documentary devoted to the coronavirus epidemic and which has been a hit for a few days on the Internet.
Entitled
Hold up
, the film is funded to the tune of 200,000 euros by Internet users.
It's been available for rent on multiple video-sharing platforms since Wednesday, after a social media teasing campaign last month.
This film claims to shed light on a global conspiracy whose objective is to annihilate part of the population.
Between Covid-19, 5G and nanoparticles, all the subjects dear to conspirators are discussed in an attempt to justify global theories.
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"The problem with this documentary is that it conveys a jumble of conspiracy theories", analyzes Tristan Mendès France, associate lecturer at the University of Paris-Diderot, and collaborator of the Observatory of conspiracy.
"It is an anxiety-provoking, dependent documentary which targets a sort of globalist elite who would seek to enslave, exploit and / or exterminate part of the population".
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Once again, social networks are singled out.
They offer disproportionate exposure to marginal comments.
Faced with the magnitude of the phenomenon, the video-sharing platform Vimeo has withdrawn the documentary, but it remains accessible on other sites.
"I'm afraid that generates, in the mind of someone who has been exposed to this documentary and who has no critical distance, a real confusion in relation to the health constraints in which we are", worries the university.
"It will probably arouse suspicion and even animosity towards the authorities, the government."
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And according to Tristan Mendès France, it is crucial to act before Internet users have access to this content.
"We must warn those who have not yet seen it, who have not yet switched and tell them that this documentary is both dangerous, full of untruths and that it essentially plays more on the affect that on reason, "he advises.
Theories deconstructed by the media and Internet users
These theories clearly do not hold water.
This has been demonstrated since Wednesday by many Internet users but also the media.
Among them,
Liberation,
Friday or
Le Monde
from Thursday
.
Among the film's speakers is the former Minister of Health Philippe Douste-Blazy.
He said he was "scandalized" by the remarks made and the theories defended.
He even dissociated himself from it by asking that his two interventions be removed from the film.