Hold-up on infodemia

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Paris, Thursday November 5, 2020 (illustration photo).

AP Photo / Michel Euler

By: Amaury de Rochegonde Follow

6 min

Conspiracy theories around the Covid-19 pandemic have been circulating in particular since this week, with a self-funded documentary: “Hold-up”.

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It is a film by Pierre Barnerias of almost 2 hours and 45 minutes, quite well done with quality images.

Well, that's for the sake of form because in terms of substance, there is a whole jumble of pseudo-revelations on the Covid-19.

Mixture, it would be a virus created by the Pasteur Institute which would be used by the World Economic Forum in Davos to " 

subdue humanity

 " as part of a global plan called the " 

great reset

 ".

The goal would be mass vaccination which would only have for real purpose to file individuals, to suppress their freedoms, when in reality Covid-19 would not be more dangerous than other viruses.

Finally, here is one of the smoky theories of the film because there is another, even more conspiratorial.

It is supported by a sociologist, however renowned, Monique Pinçon-Charlot, who explains without blinking that the rich part of humanity has undertaken to get rid of the poor half by the virus because with robots and artificial intelligence, it does not no longer needs its labor force.

Let's sum up, a harmless virus that will decimate the poor, we no longer know whether we should laugh or cry in front of so much inconsistency.

But it doesn't matter to the promoters of this conspiratorial documentary, “Hold-up”, which starts off as a big heist on crowdfunding.

In all, nearly 300,000 euros were raised from Internet users on the Ulule and Tipee platforms.

Proof that if you combine Covid, artificial intelligence, 5G and surveillance, you are sure to find people willing to follow you.

Especially with relays like the site of France Soir or the host of Sud Radio, André Bercoff.

In a few days, this documentary which contains about thirty false information, according to AFP, has been seen by hundreds of thousands of people and widely shared on social networks.

So of course, it is easy to point out the credulity of people in the face of phenomena that escape them.

"Hold-up" corresponds to the need to cling to a truth in an uncertain world and when the government does not know where it is going after lying about the masks of which it did not have enough stocks.

The film also corresponds to an era of post-truth dear to Donald Trump and it is no coincidence that the conspirators are quite close to QAnon, supported by the former president, who denounces a pedo-criminal conspiracy of " 

the Deep state

 ”.

This is not going to get any better since the NGO First Draft is worried about the impact of disinformation on vaccines next year, when not everyone can be delivered at the same time ...

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