TF1 had to quickly cancel a report following a personal tragedy.
Hate campaigns targeting public figures, influencers and other Miss France are now legion. But some also increasingly target anonymous people, not always aware of the danger of coming to testify openly on television. Recently, a lottery winner who wished to remain anonymous on TF1 was the target of a torrent of mockery and attacks on the Web. His only fault: wanting to share his incredible luck on the show Seven to Eightfond of this kind of sequence every Sunday evening, on the first channel.
Seven to Eight also broadcast another shocking testimony in its edition last week, on January 12, resulting in an even more violent outpouring of hatred on social networks. To the point that the channel had to urgently remove the sequence from its platforms, two days after its broadcast. “The report broadcast this Sunday sparked a wave of harassment against a witness. For the protection of the victims, we have decided to withdraw it,” the show soberly indicated on its X account.
It must be said that Internet users, but also certain media, did not do any favors to the woman who had come to speak on the front page. This fifty-year-old told the camera how she was cheated out of 830,000 euros by a man pretending to be Brad Pitt. The thugs deployed a sophisticated arsenal to fool her, going so far as to claim that the star needed money for an operation. Ruined and still hospitalized, she explained that she had made several suicide attempts.
-But the gullibility of the victim, named Anne, was immediately pointed out after the broadcast, with some not hesitating to openly mock or divert her words or her image. Including comedians or official accounts, like that of TFC, the Toulouse football club, which posted an ironic message on X accompanied by a photomontage, before deleting it and apologizing…
The removal of the sequence Seven to Eight also reflects the embarrassment of the channel, accused by the victim of having truncated her testimony. In the show Legend by Guillaume Pley on Youtube, Anne was indeed indignant that “the journalist, [qui est resté deux jours à l’interviewer]only retained what was not necessary to retain in fact, to dirty [s]on image”. A maneuver carried out “solely with the aim of attracting an audience” according to her. “I'm not crazy or stupid as some people claim, say or write on social networks, I just wanted to help someone,” she was moved.
Anne's example is, however, a chilling insight into what identity theft and artificial intelligence can produce today, as Brad Pitt's team, which got wind of the scandal, did. -even pointed out: “It's awful that scammers are taking advantage of fans' strong connection to celebrities, but it's a reminder not to respond to unsolicited messages online, especially from actors Who do not have a presence on social networks.
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