Guillaume Tabard: "Boomerang-style communication"

This is another failure in a communication which, since January, has been the weak link in the management of the crisis. The idea of ​​referencing “safe and verified sources of information” on the official government website to combat “the spread of fake news” is as disturbing as it is counterproductive.

Since the spokesperson, Sibeth Ndiaye, boasted of this initiative
on her Twitter account, taunts and indignation have multiplied, making the parallel with the Miniver, the Ministry of Truth invented
by Orwell in 1984 . Let us not question the intentions of the Secretary of State. The need to fight against false information is all the more necessary since some could be dangerous from a health standpoint.

But how do you fight these mistakes? In recent years, several media have introduced headings of "fact checking" - a term really more understandable than the word "verification"? Everyone does it with the expertise of their teams

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