2024-08-30 15:59:28
It’s a simple moderation process, according to Instagram. Last Friday, high-profile accounts were removed from the platform. The pages – gathering thousands of subscribers – of Occidentis, Frontières (formerly Livre Noir) and Alice Cordier have been banned. With political leaders, everyone cries “censorship”. But what exactly? Le Parisien takes stock.
Which accounts are affected?
“Occidentis” was the largest deleted page, with 160,000 subscribers before its closure. The account, which is also available on other social networks, has as its business the news of violent attacks, often disseminated with graphic videos.
Also through these deletions is Alice Cordier, then followed by almost 50,000 subscribers. The president of the identity group Némesis is known as “feminist, thinking that immigration is the source of all women’s ills in France”, Tristan Boorsier, doctor of political science from the University of Montreal and from the science of Paris .
The Borders Journal (formerly the Black Book) has been reactivated, shortly after its deletion. The page receives subscribers with interviews with Papacito and Éric Zemmour, until 100,000 people follow it. Line reopened, it published on Wednesday a link to a violent video of a car hitting a gendarme and killing him in Mougins. Other, smaller pages, such as Bonne Droite or L’Association de Soutien aux Lanceurs d’Alerte (ASLA) have also been deleted.
How does Instagram justify itself?
Asked by Le Parisien, the platform is suspending certain accounts as part of a classic balance.
As a subsidiary of the Meta group, suspended members violate the community standards contained in the general conditions of use. Others, including that of Frontières (formerly the Black Book), were restored after an error in the balancing process.
Who opposes “censorship”?
Political figures quickly accused Instagram of “censorship”, such as Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, Marion Maréchal and Éric Zemmour. The latter also produced a petition, “No to censorship”, published by his group and its affiliates, protesting the “attack on freedom of expression”.
Members of the National Rally (RN) are also angry. MP Laure Lavalette thinks the facts are “a hoax”. It was a “decision of pure political necessity,” argued his colleague Matthias Renault. “The only mistake of the Occidentis is to contradict what no other media says,” also accused RN Tiffany Joncour who voted.
“It’s rather unusual,” analyzed Tristan Boursier. A scholar of Internet radicalism explains: “In general, political leaders are trying to distance themselves from these unusual thinkers, for their own image, even if they let the Overton window open. (what can be said and argued in society) and to reach non-political voters.
The interference of Pavel Durov’s speech
“Yesterday, it was the removal of the C8 frequency, then the threat on Telegram, today the deletion of accounts”, launches the selected Reconquest! Sarah Knafo on inappropriate content on her messaging system. The instrument is in fact widely used by identity movements.
“Maybe it’s just a coincidence of the calendar, or it’s a general anger against the French national team” or “it’s a total culture war” that can be read on extremist Telegram channels, also drawing comparisons with the arrest of Pavel Durov.
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