The original video has been deleted, but social networks are made that it continues to be talked about. This Tuesday morning, a summary hearing was held at the Paris judicial court, opposing the host Arthur to the X and Meta platforms, the Facebook and Instagram parent company. If the star presenter of TF1 had not made the trip, he demanded the deletion of many content referring to a video compiling extracts from his program “A TAKE OR TO LOIS”.
This assembly, published on December 3 by the feminist account The cheeky pointed out problematic behaviors of the animator vis-à-vis women: inappropriate words, salar look, kissing not consented … A four-minute video quickly become viral on the social networks. If the initial assembly has been depressed by the X platform, it has been back on numerous occasions, so that it is always accessible. Above all, he generated, according to his lawyer, Me Jade Dousselin, a wave of cyberbully towards the host.
“Falky assembly”
“This fallacious assembly gives a biased feeling of reality and aims to pass it as a sexual attacker,” argued the advice. And to recall that Arthur is a “public figure whose probity has never been questioned during his career on television”. It also claims that the data allowing the authors of hateful or defamatory messages to be communicated.
The lawyer for network X denied any “manipulation” in the video, recalling that it was simply “extracts from sequences” of the program which served a “debate of general interest”, in particular on the evolution of behavior. “This allows you to take a retrospective look at what was admitted twenty years ago,” insisted Me Karim Beylouni.
If the platform he represents has already withdrawn certain videos, considering in particular that there was a risk in matters of copyright, he judges that the conditions are not met to access the request for Arthur since it is not a “manipulation of reality” or a “deepfake”. As for cyberbullying, he believes that the host has not been able to prove the degradation of his living conditions. Meta’s lawyer said the Instagram network recovered from justice.
A criminal procedure
In parallel with this procedure – the decision of which will be rendered on April 3 -, the national prosecution against online hatred opened a preliminary investigation for aggravated public insults, especially after anti -Semitic comments. The investigations were entrusted to the delinquency repression brigade against the person (BRDP).
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