How to fight against the progression of conspiracy?
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Paris, Thursday November 5, 2020 (illustration photo).
AP Photo / Michel Euler
By: Guillaume Naudin Follow
31 min
These are theories that are transmitted through social networks, instant messaging applications, or simply by email.
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All countries, and especially democracies, are affected to varying degrees or in various ways by these theories which explain that the truth is hidden for the benefit of the elites in power.
Recently, in France, it is a film which claims to reveal the truth about the Covid-19 pandemic, when in the United States, and in the rest of the world, for several months, the conspiracy movement QAnon has continued to gain ground to the point of worrying the security agencies.
How to fight against the progression of conspiracy?
This is the question of the day.
With:
- Tristan Mendès France
, associate lecturer at the University of Paris, specialist in digital cultures and collaborator at the
Observatory of conspiracy
- François Jost
, semiologist, professor emeritus in Information and Communication Sciences at Sorbonne-Nouvelle University.
Author of numerous books, including
Wickedness in the Digital Age
and
Media: Getting Out of Hate?
, CNRS Editions
- Thomas Huchon
, journalist, documentary maker, professor at Sciences-po, author of a documentary, Infodemic to see on the
Spicee
site
.
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