Here is Francis Lalanne again! Rather discreet in the media lately, the singer wants to sue Twitter. In question: he wants the American firm to immediately delete “half a dozen recent tweets, deemed” inaccurate and misleading “by the singer”, specifies LCI.
Francis Lalanne is still representing himself in the 3rd district of Charente with the slogan: “Francis Lalanne, your deputy, animalist, ecologist, sovereignist, Free France”.
For a long time now, he has been taken to task by Internet users. The leftist has indeed exposed himself a lot in recent years by being a figure in the movement of yellow vests, a convinced antivax and anti-sanitary pass. Moreover, he has often been judged to be a supporter of conspiracy theories. For example, he had been accused on the little Blue Bird of being in cahoots with Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as of supporting the war waged in Ukraine.
LCI collected the testimony of Maître Ludot, the singer’s lawyer. “These attacks this time have an artificial and massive character and present an obvious risk of altering the sincerity of the ballot.”
According to the representative, these various slanderous tweets violate a recent law by Emmanuel Macron. Since November 2018, it aims to fight against “manipulation of information during an election period.” According to the lawyer, this law would be “effective and very useful. If it is well applied, it can be formidable against the excesses of social networks.”
“Once seized, a Parisian judge will have to rule on this request in less than 48 hours”specify our colleagues. “The social network will then also have two days to delete or not the messages pointed out by the candidate. In the event of delay, the company will have to pay a fine of 1000 euros per day.”
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