The news of the day, apparently, this is it: "international" research has shown that the yellow vest protest, in France, it was infiltrated and supported by the right, sometimes extreme, which on the Internet contributed to amplifying the media effects of the protest against President Macron. It's the usual local troll soup, successful hacker, American white supremacists and other bogeymen without whom, apparently, you can't do anything anymore.
The emphasis that – in this case as in all similar cases, from Russiagate onwards – it is given to trouble, you have post, to the tweets and retweets of the Internet demonstrates how traditional information is inclined to look for the speck in another's eye (Internet, Obviously) and neglect the beam that is housed in its own.
If this were not the case, the research published by the BBC would have had equal or greater prominence, which denounces the work of trolls to create consensus around the Warsaw summit called by the USA to marginalize Iran from the international community and perhaps to pave the way for some more decisive intervention than just economic sanctions. But above all it demonstrates once again how great it is, more generally, the desire to talk about something else, to go around problems by addressing only the waste and not the substance. Like a gala lunch made of baby carrots and spinach but without roast meat.
What we need today, speaking of yellow vests, It's a great search (even not international, municipal is also fine, as long as it is well done) about the reasons for their anger. Let him try to understand, for example, why so many "normal" French people have been taking to the streets for months to smash shop windows, getting beaten up by the police and getting rubber bullets, while the République only manages to pass vaguely repressive laws to narrow the margins for protests. It would be discovered, Perhaps, that behind the problem of excise duties on fuel there is a much more important issue, indeed decisive. For decades, the complicity of political systems with industrial ones has filled our streets with diesel engines that Europe no longer wants because they pollute. Read More