Describe the evil of the 21st century. Many essayists and academics have tried their hand at the exercise since Brexit and the election of Donald Trump in 2016. All of them drew up the overwhelmed observation of a proliferation of disinformation, which today contaminates all areas. And weakens democracy. In his book
L'Emprise du fake,
Fabrice Fries takes an innovative practitioner's perspective on the art of distilling fake news.
"Not as the essayist that I am not, but as the head of a media fully involved in the response,"
warns the CEO of AFP from the outset. The Capitol uprising on January 6, 2021 is portrayed as the culmination of years of disinformation, hatred and conspiracy theories.
But disinformation is an invention as old as the world.
“The fake news is the mirror where 'the collective consciousness' contemplates its own features,”
wrote historian Marc Bloch in 1922 after the First World War.
The
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