These are external links and will open in a new windowA sex video has ended French ruling party candidate Benjamin Griveaux's hopes of becoming mayor of Paris.The ex-spokesman for President Emmanuel Macron's government, who was already trailing in the race, was apparently targeted by a Russian protest artist accusing him of hypocrisy. An absence which, according to many Internet users, was proof of censorship operated by Twitter.
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"Sometimes a subject doesn't come up on trend because its popularity is not as widespread as you think," says Twitter.
Your email address is collected by Le Parisien to allow you to receive our news and commercial offers. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Contacted, the social network does not respond directly to accusations of censorship on trends. This goes too far My family doesn't deserve this. Far-right leader Marine Le Pen suggested that for the sake of democracy Mr Griveaux should perhaps not have resigned.Prime Minister Edouard Philippe expressed his support for his former colleague and Interior Minister Christophe Castaner went further, warning that publishing videos without the author's consent was an offence punishable by a significant fine and up to two years in jail.The video appeared on a little known website that featured a profile of Mr Griveaux's political ambitions and his "fanatical faith in family values". Politicians had to be honest and he said he would carry on fighting the "propaganda and puritanism of politicians".French media have traditionally avoided prying into the private lives of people in public life and a number of figures referred distastefully to the "Americanisation" of politics. Benjamin Griveaux, center, campaigned in … As soon as the “case” came out, #Griveaux switched to TT France with posts every 5-10 seconds. Mr Villani described the "outrageous attack" on Mr Griveaux and his family as a serious threat to French democracy.Ms Hidalgo, the current Socialist mayor, is leading in the polls, ahead of Republicans candidate Rachida Dati.Mr Macron came to power in 2017 and his new LREM party secured a majority in the National Assembly. "To what new low have we fallen in public life that anyone is prepared to publish this kind of thing to bring down politicians? These are in any case the accusations of social network users since Thursday evening, when compromising photo and video captures went viral online. In 2013, associations against homophobia criticized him for not having been effective enough in the deindexing of hate hashtags. This could also explain why the name of Benjamin Griveaux was not immediately in "TT" Thursday evening. Several parameters are taken into account, such as the novelty of the subject, the variety of people who talk about it, and its lifespan. On these images, non-authenticated and assigned to the candidate LREM, a man is shown masturbating.
Virtually, tweets on #Bieber are still popular, but they are always the same people who tweet about them, "said social media specialist Dave Larson on his blog. After midnight, however, #Griveaux appeared in TT for the majority of users, without us knowing exactly why. This could also explain why the name of Benjamin Griveaux was not immediately in "TT" Thursday evening.
18.3k Followers, 1,325 Following, 204 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Benjamin Griveaux (@bgriveaux) The night before, when the affair was buzzing on Twitter, his name was not visible in the most "popular" subjects ("trending topics", abbreviated to "TT" or "Trends") of Twitter while the images and the subject were in many tweets. In addition, the “fashionable” subjects on the social network are designated by a fairly complex algorithm. "Even if we prevent hashtag or content from appearing in the trend list, you may still be able to access conversations about that content on Twitter," said his guide online. A link to the site was shared by an MP who was forced to resign from Mr Macron's LREM (Republic on the Move) party in late 2018.Mr Griveaux told the BFMTV news channel that for the past year he and his family had been subjected to "defamatory remarks, lies, rumours, anonymous attacks... and even death threats".
I'm not prepared to expose my family and myself any more when all these attacks are allowed.