Last updated on 21 February 2025
#OnTeManipule is a small information site that offers an interesting analysis of conspiracy theories. Or how to decrypt hoax, rumors, photos or videos rigged … all this false information that abounds on the internet.
The site launched by government services to the great merit of to give elements of deciphering and understanding of this phenomenon in full expansion in the troubled periods that we are going through. It could have been created by the Ministry of National Education, as it is true that such resources are sometimes sorely lacking for teachers confronted in their classrooms with such simplistic and smoky theories.
We manipulate you is to be put in all hands and can serve as a working basis for a media and information literacy session. The success of the creators of this page is due to the fact that it speaks to everyone in high school as well as to the teacher to the parent as well as to the citizen. They found a tone, the right tone to talk to all those audiences.
And as Humor is still a formidable weapon to be used against all fools, the On Te Manipule page begins with a video that offers an interview with Kevin Razy, who declines between two blagounts the good reflexes to have to keep his critical sense and take a step back from the information that circulates.
This is followed by an attempt to define conspiracy theory and its purpose, which it is never useless to recall: these kinds of theses aim to ‘sow confusion, disinformation, and hatred against the individuals or groups of individuals it stigmatises’. »
The site then proposes to browse the 7 Commandments of Conspiracy Theory before offering a remarkable infographic in the form of a Conspiracy Theory Detector. This infographic alone is worth a visit.
To finish the page proposes some useful references and an interview with Guillaume Brossard, one of the creators of the essential Hoaxbuster website who for many years has been hunting for Hoax and other false rumours circulating on the net. He recalled the message and the main objective that emerged from this mini-site: it was necessary to help young people and beyond all citizens to remain critical and to take sufficient time to decipher information and the media, particularly the new digital media.
This site undeniably participates in it.
Link: On Te Manipule
English
“When I see what I see and hear what I hear, I am happy to think what I think.” (F. Raynaud). That's why sites that report untruths are suspicious when you read what I read and see what I see. In other words, the present is a present: take off your screens and think. There is no smoke without fire.