Journaliste scientifique, auteur (Guide de #vulgarisation ), blogueur (science & médias), prof. Ports d'attache: l'Agence @SciencePresse et le vélo.

Montreal
Joined October 2008
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🇺🇸 Donald Trump’s election victory paves the way for a fresh wave of misinformation, not only around politics but also on vaccines and climate u.afp.com/5H7F
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Vermont's @sevendaysvt went from being an arts-and-culture upstart to the state's paper of record, expanding local news coverage while staying true to its community roots. Read more about this Bright Spot in @MedillSchool's 2024 State of Local News Report. localnewsinitiative.northwes…
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La semaine dernière, le co-directeur de l’équipe de transition de Trump affirmait que les vaccins causaient l’autisme et on apprenait que Robert F. Kennedy Jr, défenseur de théories douteuses en santé, pourrait se voir offrir le ministère de la Santé. loom.ly/uNY_elk
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Trump: "we always have huge crowds and never any empty seats." Cameraman: *pans camera*
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New: Elon Musk’s misinformation megaphone has created a “huge problem” for election officials in key battleground states who told CNN they’re struggling to combat the wave of falsehoods coming from the tech billionaire & spreading wildly on his X platform. w/ @snlyngaas & @SaraMurray cnn.com/2024/10/31/politics/…
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Vincent Lautard@VLautard25 Oct 2024
Séquence magistrale de l’humoriste Fabrice Éboué qui montre comment le complotisme, l’obscurantisme, les fake news et les fake med se propagent et se renforcent, grace aux réseaux sociaux !
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Marty Baron, con't: "Donald Trump will celebrate this as an invitation to further intimidate The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos (and other media owners). History will mark a disturbing chapter of spinelessness at an institution famed for courage." My story: npr.org/2024/10/25/nx-s1-516…
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🇺🇸 Americans face a deluge of misinformation in the closing weeks of the presidential campaign. Claims about ballot irregularities and vote flipping are likely to dominate -- despite no evidence of widespread fraud in past elections u.afp.com/5KZa
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Gotta be a first for an AP headline
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With teleprompters visible on both sides of him, as they are almost every speech, Trump says he doesn’t use teleprompters. cnn.com/2024/10/11/politics/…
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Exactly. By Charlie Warzel. "What’s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis." theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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60 Minutes: The Trump campaign complained that we would fact-check the interview. We fact-check every story.
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Trump has lied about the federal hurricane response with staggering frequency and variety. My timeline fact check of his six days and counting of Helene dishonesty: cnn.com/2024/10/06/politics/…
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We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. - Carl Sagan
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J’ai été un des premiers à alerter et ai participé à rédiger cette plainte ordinale avec la ⁦@SPILF_⁩ La justice prend son temps mais elle finit par rendre justice Didier Raoult interdit d’exercer la médecine durant deux ans – via @lemondefr lemonde.fr/societe/article/2…
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It’s happening again, clear as it was at this time in 2020. Donald Trump is telling election lie after election lie - at least 12 different ones recently - to lay the groundwork to reject the legitimacy of a possible 2024 defeat: cnn.com/2024/09/30/politics/…
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Local news outlets in the region flooded by Helene are producing indispensable service journalism. Right now the top stories on the Asheville Citizen-Times home page include "where to get gas, groceries, wifi, water" and "how to stay safe during boil water advisory"
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Here is a list of 12 completely fictional stories Donald Trump has told in the last month alone. Even calling these lies does not do them justice. The Republican presidential nominee is regularly delivering vivid tales that have no basis in reality: cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/…
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