The Russian war in Ukraine has many fields of operation.
On land, at sea and in the air, but also on the Internet.
The Kremlin's propaganda is pouring out on social networks, and, in an ingenious way, by imitating the site of
20 Minutes
, our free and independent French news media.
A domain name similar to that of 20minutes.fr
A website imitating that of
20 Minutes
was recently spotted by Meta, the parent company of Facebook.
Same colors, same presentation, and a very, very similar URL: 20minuts.com.
As explained by Aurélien Capdecomme, director of technology at
20 Minutes
,
on our podcast “Minute Papillon!
“, people have registered this domain name close to 20minutes.fr.
They created a graphic charter similar to our media, making their fake site almost similar to ours.
Several pages were created, on which pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian propaganda articles were published.
How did the
20 Minutes
teams allow the deactivation of this fake site?
Why is it easy to create French news site clones?
What the law says?
And how to check that you are indeed on the pages of our media, and not on a fake site imitating it?
All the answers from Aurélien Capdecomme in this episode.
Our "CTO" advises you in particular to check that the URL entered in the browser is indeed www.20minutes.fr, to search for our site with a search engine like Google, or to put our website in "favorite".
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