In the press - With the trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, the "tabloidization" of TikTok

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Ukraine, of course, is on the front page of many daily newspapers this Friday, May 20.

 focuses on the diplomatic aspect with a file titled "The impasse of the Macron-Putin dialogue"

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The daily observes that the Franco-German tandem is struggling.

According to the French daily, Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz have lacked authority since the start of the war in Ukraine, because they have been supplanted by the "very proactive" commitment of the United States and the return in force of NATO. , which suits the states of Central Europe and the Baltic countries, totally aligned with the American positions and convinced more than ever that only the American umbrella can ensure their security. 

recalls that the French President and the German Chancellor are still expected in Kiev, where they have not set foot since the start of the invasion of Ukraine…

Vladimir Putin, for his part, always presents this war against Ukraine as a conflict of civilization against the West, and never misses an opportunity to criticize pro-Western Russians "whose spirit is not present alongside their people".

Except that there is a small problem: Vladimir Putin's own daughter seems to be one of those Russians who love Western Europe a lot... An investigation by the British newspaper

 reveals that Katerina Tikhonova went to Germany more than 50 times in the past two years, where she is allegedly having an affair with a ballet dancer named Igor Zelensky.

But the man is Russian, unrelated to the Ukrainian president.

If many critics of the Russian regime denounce the cult of personality that surrounds Vladimir Putin, it seems that it is not unique to Russia.

In the United States,

claims that the Republican Party is no longer "a political party in the traditional sense of the word" but an organization that practices a cult of personality mixed with an agenda based on conspiracy theories.

The cult of personality is Donald Trump.

The conspiracy theory is the one that claims the 2020 presidential election was stolen (it's called "The Big Lie") 

If the American daily is talking about it this morning, it is because the midterm general elections are scheduled for November, and the turnout is generally low.

writes: "We can reject Trumpism, its religion and its beginnings of fascism...while we still can."

Clearly, a call to voters to go to the polls. 

Also in the United States, this alert from the

 : more and more young people are buying anxiolytics on social networks and are dying.

According to a California magistrate, "social networks have become the place to get pills"

 But beyond consuming these drugs without a prescription, they are fake (counterfeits), which contain fentanyl, an equivalent of heroin.

The platforms are starting to react, and to get an idea of ​​the scale of the phenomenon, Snapchat alone removed 144,000 accounts linked to drug suppliers in the last six months of 2021. 

Social networks have also revolutionized the way news is consumed and disseminated.

And Johnny Depp's ongoing lawsuit against his ex-wife actress Amber Heard has tipped TikTok into another category. 

title on the "tabloidization" of TikTok.

He notes that a multitude of accounts cut, analyze, comment and tell this trial, providing a work which is similar to that of producers of television series, and of mass.

To get an idea of ​​the volume generated by the trial, the hashtag #justiceForJohnnyDepp, in favor of the actor, has accumulated 12.4 billion views.

A major problem raises

, because popular justice is exercised through social networks.

And in this case, a massive smear campaign of which Amber Heard is the victim, accused of not being credible. 

Finally, tributes are multiplying around the world after the death of Vangelis.

The Greek composer of electronic music, author among others of the legendary soundtracks of the films "Chariots of fire", "Blade runner" or "1492: Christophe Colomb" died in Paris at the age of 79.

The news of his death is obviously also on the front page of the Greek press.

Beyond everything we know about Vangelis, know that there is also a planet, which has been renamed in his name.

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