Prepared since December at the initiative of students as part of a master’s project in International Negotiations at Aix-Marseille University, the conference organized this Tuesday evening on the production of information, within the Schumann campus in Aix-en-Provence, could not have come at a better time, hit by local as well as international news, from municipal elections to the repercussions of the war of the United States and Israel against Iran.
CEO of Grimms partners, specializing in the provision of information and international advice to private companies, particularly in contexts of tension, Sébastien Benotti was well placed to alert on media bias, between processions of experts, inaccuracies and orientation information. Like the announced Houthi strikes against Israel, in reality shots were fired towards the Jewish state. And to call for understanding where the information comes from, and for a long-term analysis far from any media haste.
Former communications officer, reserve lieutenant-colonel Christophe Chomel de Jarnieu could also shed his light on informational wars and their responses by institutions, taking up the example of the false mass graves erected by Wagner’s Russian mercenaries in Mali.
Pour The Marseillaisejournalist Yves Souben was able to return to the conditions of information production, increasingly constrained by the commodification of a sector in crisis, the race for audiences, in the face of ever-increasing concentration, an ideological offensive and the threats of generative AI. The opportunity to recall that the promises from the General Statement of Information, in September 2024, had still not come to fruition despite the urgency.
