Recently, Daniel Riolo, interviewed in Le Figaro At Night, spoke about the hate messages he received on social networks. Indeed, sports journalists sometimes find themselves confronted with insults and even threats. “We have the impression that things remain frozen and you say to people, 'Did you really hear everything? You know that the next day I talked about it again 'no, we have the impression that there is a moment that stops and we no longer want to listen to you'confides Géraldine Maillet’s companion.
And the journalist has a hard time understanding why do some people react this way? : “And all you're going to say, all you want to correct, is no. We have the impression that you're carrying around this scar and that people are going to constantly come and stick the knife in it. That’s violent.”
Géraldine Maillet confides in the help provided by her companion Daniel Riolo
Near him, Géraldine Maillet, also a victim of violent messages, confides: “Daniel is my social media coach, he taught me to have a lot of detachment, I don't look at them at all”she explains, with great modesty but also sadness.
“X, it’s over for me. It's a sort of gutter of thought, it's violence in its pure state, in its wild state.
It's too hard, too many insults, insultsdeath threats… I'm not watching anymore. This isn't real life, I've never seen anyone in the street spit on me saying 'I'm going to kill you'”.
The columnist victim of insults
And in the face of insults, Daniel Riolo manages to keep his calm:
“He’s incredibly strong compared to that, there’s nothing that shakes him when it comes to social media”declares the TPMP columnist.
“It helps me a lot to understand that this is not real life.”
Cyril Hanouna's friend insists on the “unfair” side of this situation. “I understand what Daniel is saying because when he develops a statement, there are arguments, a thesis, and on social networks they are bits of thoughts, shortcuts. So obviously you are assigned to one camp or another, (…) there is no nuance”.
