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Who are these "Sleeping Giants" who want to cut funding to the media deemed "anxiety-provoking"?

2021-06-19T07:35:24.714Z


FOCUS - For five years, these activists have sought to deprive of their advertising revenues those whose editorial line they dislike. Targeted, Current Values ​​and CNews file a complaint.


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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Source: lefigaro

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