• A visual is actively circulating on social networks.

    The latter uses the layout of BFMTV articles and suggests that Facebook would now allow people to denounce their anti-vaccination relatives.

  • It is in reality only a montage, which modifies the title and the summary of an article published in early July on the site of the continuous news channel.

Are you fed up with your brother-in-law's anti-tax posts on social media?

Don't block it, report it to the authorities.

It's absurd ?

Yes.

But that did not prevent many Internet users from falling into the trap.

In a few hours this Monday, July 26, a few dozen Facebook publications have appeared to denounce what is presented as the new initiative of the giant of social networks: to allow its users to denounce those who would radicalize against vaccination.

As proof, a visual visible below shows the typography and the layout of the articles of BFMTV in mobile version.

As an illustrative photograph, a screenshot of one of the reporting forms from the government platform “Internet-signalement.gouv.fr” is visible.

"Crazy" for some, "terrifying" for others, the hypothetical measure of the social network worries.

But we reassure you, this is only a photomontage.

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An article from BFMTV, published on July 2, 2021 and titled "Hate online: Facebook wants to alert users who are radicalizing", was published on the site of the continuous news channel, but it does not deal with vaccination against Covid-19.

The words “wants to alert” were simply replaced by “proposes to denounce”, while “against the vaccine” was added at the end of the title.

In the chapeau - this part of an article located under the title which summarizes the subject and gives the main information -, visible at the bottom of the image, it is the compound word "non-vaccinated" which has been added after " radicalization ".

Instead of the automatic video that plays when reading an article, a screenshot of a government report form has been inserted.

Here is a comparison of the original article and the doctored version:

Through this new initiative, Facebook does not propose to denounce your radically anti-tax friends, but allows users who have been exposed to radical content to get help, or to help their loved ones, by redirecting them to help pages.

"This experiment is part of our work to offer resources and help to Facebook users who may have been involved in the dissemination of extremist content, exposed to it, or who may know people at risk" specified a Facebook spokesperson at CNN in early July.

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