Name: Sleeping Giants.
Profession: Cyber activists claiming to fight the funding of hate speech in the media.
“
There are quite a few of us in France.
Our identity must be protected, because we frequently receive death threats
, ”explains a certain Rachel, who presents herself as a co-founder of the French branch of the citizen collective.
For five years, these activists have publicly challenged companies whose advertisements appear in certain media considered to be “
anxiety-provoking
”.
They seek to deprive of their advertising revenues those whose editorial line they dislike.
Their targets in recent months: the ultraconservative weekly Valeursuelles, the news channel CNews, France Soir accused of relaying
"fake news on the pandemic
" or Boulevard Voltaire
.
“
Our political views have nothing to do with our actions,”
says Rachel.
We represent the consumer who finances, sometimes in spite of himself, a media
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