Created last March during the first wave, the pro-Raoult group “Didier Raoult vs Coronavirus” was deactivated by Facebook while it enjoyed a record audience.
The “Raoultsphère” is losing one of its main channels of expression.
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With 482,000 members, the Facebook group “Didier Raoult vs Coronavirus” brought together a record number of Internet users.
Public and open to all, it should allow, according to its creator, to create "
hope
" in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.
Each post typically garnered dozens or even hundreds of comments within hours.
There were press articles concerning the recommendation of the health authorities not to use chloroquine except for serious cases of Covid-19, visuals with comments, video extracts, or even personal texts.
The most popular posts were humorous videos, practical tips (“how to make a mask yourself”) or solidarity messages.
The administrative team sometimes signed its announcements with a very original “raoultement yours”.
The most shared posts seemed to bring out a community of solidarity with popular workers, hostile to Emmanuel Macron, and for whom the refusal to prescribe hydroxychloroquine is incomprehensible.
Professor Raoult is often presented on social media as the only rational scientific figure in a period of uncertainty fueled by government contradictions.
“
He behaved like a resistance from the very beginning.
When the State spoke of war, spoke to it of success and hope
”, assured in the columns of
Le Monde
Serge Benichou, co-creator of the group.
