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Harassed, Marlène Schiappa files a complaint and privatizes her Twitter account

2021-03-21T10:37:41.986Z


Victim of hate messages on the social network, the Minister has decided to temporarily protect its content. She calls on Twitter to act.


"I'm the first sorry."

A fervent user of social networks, and particularly of Twitter, the Minister for Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, however resigned herself to making her content

"private"

on the blue bird network and also filed a complaint.

This means that from now on, only subscribers approved by Marlène Schiappa will be able to read its content.

The message posted by Marlène Schiappa on her Twitter account.

Marlène Schiappa.

Why this decision taken reluctantly?

Because of multiple hateful and dishonorable messages against her, posted on Twitter ... Messages that she failed to contain.

Political commitment cannot justify digital raids.

Faced with a wave of cyberstalking including death threats, I filed a complaint and asked Twitter to act,

”tweeted the Minister, just before protecting access to her account.

She did not specify when she would make her profile public again.

Several complaints filed

Making an account private is an extremely rare phenomenon among public figures, especially for politicians, who communicate a lot on Twitter.

The social network and its responsiveness to manage online hatred are also directly pointed out by the minister.

"

Twitter remaining in inertia, I made my account go private,

" regrets the minister.

Marlène Schiappa also knows what she is talking about since in January 2019, she had already been the target of hate messages on the same network.

She had lodged a complaint after dozens of violent messages that were posted after she publicly opposed the online support pot for ex-boxer Christophe Dettinger, who played fists against police officers during a protest of yellow vests.

I filed a complaint, this is not the first unfortunately, but in general I do not talk about it.

I have filed several, there have been trials, some people have already been sentenced,

she explained on France Inter in January 2019.

Like many women in politics, I am the target of threatening and threatening operations. death, targeted cyberstalking, hateful, threatening, abusive calls.

"

Source: lefigaro

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