"Lelandais has already been beheaded a hundred times on the networks": how social networks have changed our relationship to news items

LE FIGARO.

- How have social networks changed the processing and reading of news items?

Michel MOATTI.

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With social networks, we are entering a new way of doing justice and investigating.

We saw it with Delphine Jubillar, Elodie Kulik and Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès: during these cases, some people, improvising themselves as investigating judges, prosecutors, investigators or journalists, began to share information on the networks in all kind, leading, on the sidelines of the judicial investigation, a sort of counter-investigation.

With each news item, we thus witness the creation of a “people's court” which interferes with the initial investigation, and where each one will relay information based on intuition and hearsay, which no longer has any significance. - something to do with the original case.

Ultimately, these improvised investigators fabricate a case within the affair.

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But this fascination with the news item has always existed ...

Yes, but with the difference that before

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