Why was Eric Zemmour banned from Instagram?
Did he violate the rules of use of the social network in front of his 47,000 subscribers?
It is, at this stage, impossible to say.
Contacted about this this Thursday afternoon, Instagram has not yet responded to our requests.
No public communication has come to justify this decision.
A few months before the presidential election, and while the journalist has been flirting for weeks with the idea of a candidate for the presidential election, it is certain that the deletion of this account, if it is confirmed over time, will be largely commented on and used for political purposes.
Because already, the polemicist cries for censorship. “This morning Instagram made the arbitrary decision to ban my official account. The GAFAM are engaged in a fierce struggle against the peoples who do not want to die. They can censor me, but they cannot silence a whole people, ”he wrote, accompanying his post with the hashtag #STOPcensure. A hashtag he had already used to communicate about his trial to be held on September 8 for "incitement to discrimination" and "racial insults". On September 29, on CNews, about unaccompanied minors, he said: “They have nothing to do here, they are thieves, they are murderers, they are rapists, that's all they are, they must be sent back and they must not even come ”.
This morning Instagram made the arbitrary decision to ban my official account.
The GAFAM are engaged in a fierce struggle against the peoples who do not want to die.
They can censor me, but they cannot silence a whole people.
#STOPcensorship
- Eric Zemmour (@ZemmourEric) August 19, 2021
When contacted, his entourage was not really able to describe the reasons for this ban. "His account was suspended without further explanation," we are simply told. Eric Zemmour has already received support in his fight against censorship in the person of Marine Le Pen. "When the censorship of social networks muzzles the opposition, it is our democracy that is in danger," she wrote on Twitter. I solemnly ask the Government to react to the deletions of the accounts of patriotic personalities on the part of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. "
When social media censorship muzzles the opposition, it is our democracy that is in danger.
I solemnly ask the Government to react to the deletions of the accounts of patriotic personalities on the part of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
MLP #StopCensorship
- Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) August 19, 2021
Beyond his legal cases, Eric Zemmour had already denounced censorship when his publisher Albin Michel had decided to terminate his contract.
The publishing house had linked this decision to the presidential ambitions of the polemicist.
