How social media are central to protests

Have the French-led student protests become invisible on social media? That's the concern of many internet users. I'm seeing nothing on social media, whether it's Twitter or TikTok. I'm not seeing any videos of the protests, nothing. Right now, you can't see any videos or live streams of the protests or of what's happening at the moment. Online, the reports are piling up. The protest is so heavily shadow-banned on social media, I can barely see it. An observation also made by Lacan and Chen, a famous investigative French newspaper. On TikTok, for example, videos posted before the first protest with the hashtag 17 October had a combined total of 2.1 billion views. A week later, videos posted before the second rally with the hashtag 24 October had been viewed 49 million times, nearly 40 times fewer. Behind this observation, an initiative by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, he reportedly asked the platforms to review content reports from the authorities very quickly. I posted a video on October 31st. It was taken down for hate speech and hateful, violent and criminal behavior. The guys deleted my video. Thank A highly criticized ban in the pages of the influential weekly Télérama magazine. Legal expert Noemi Levin describes the initiative as quasi-legal censorship. But on cell phones, an alternative to these platforms is already emerging. you. A Bluetooth messaging app that doesn't require an internet connection and would allow users to bypass any restrictions.