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Mathieu Bock-Côté: "Chic complotism and worldly QAnon"

2021-12-17T19:17:01.797Z


CHRONICLE - During the Trump presidency, there was a lot of concern about the proliferation of fake news. But we are coming to forget the existence today of a sort of mundane and progressive version of this conspiracy theory.


In Paris, but also elsewhere, there are journalists who practice their profession in a new way.

Believing themselves to be great reporters, and thus considered by a part of their peers, they nevertheless pour into worldly conspiracy and come to mediatically fabricate an alternative world by believing to describe the invisible areas of the real world.

In search of networks, nauseating complicity, horrible patrons, clandestine readings, they scrutinize the lives of politicians and intellectuals, believing they are mapping their universe.

This is the method of contact case journalism.

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They have a thesis to demonstrate and will demonstrate it at all costs, even if it means selecting facts without too much relationship between them, even if it means twisting them, even if necessary, even if it means inventing them, without forgetting to erase some. others, in order to weave between them an imaginary breadcrumb trail to reconstruct a path in a phantasmagorical way and to confirm after the fact what they thought they knew from the start ...

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Source: lefigaro

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