BRAINROT-DETOX®Désinformation : une guerre du XXIe siècle
A twelve-minute overview: actors, methods, recent examples (in French).
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The anti-brainrot prescription
Everything you need to get out of zombie mode: understand information warfare, spot interference, check, report and take back control of your attention. Free, no prescription needed, consume without moderation.
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Understand information warfare
Diagnosis before treatment: who manipulates, how, and why it works.
How to fight (and win) an information war
Why content that makes us cry or rage always wins, and how to respond.
ted.com ↗La guerre de l'information
The reference book in French on states and their battles for our minds.
tallandier.com ↗Entre information et influence : la guerre des récits
How states compete over narratives, between information and influence (in French).
radiofrance.fr ↗Guerre cognitive : dernières nouvelles du front
What research knows about cognitive warfare (in French).
radiofrance.fr ↗Guerre informationnelle (C dans l'air)
TV debate on information warfare and France's response, including the Foreign Ministry's French Response account (in French).
youtube.com ↗Baromètre de la confiance politique 2026
French trust in institutions and the media at a low: the ground on which disinformation thrives.
sciencespo.fr ↗
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Spot interference
Official sources tracking the campaigns targeting France and Europe.
VIGINUM
The French government service that detects foreign digital interference. Its public reports describe the campaigns targeting France.
sgdsn.gouv.fr ↗Six mois de désinformation russe à l'encontre de la France
Storm-1516, Portal Kombat, Social Design Agency: Russian campaigns targeting France, quantified and explained.
defense.gouv.fr ↗4th EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats
540 incidents in 2025: who attacks whom, and with which techniques.
euvsdisinfo.eu ↗EUvsDisinfo
The EU database of pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives and their debunks.
euvsdisinfo.eu ↗Adversarial Threat Report, second semestre 2026
Influence networks taken down on Facebook and Instagram, including an operation targeting French local elections.
transparency.meta.com ↗
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Check before you share
An image, a video or a quote that smells fishy? Check it.
AFP Factuel
AFP's fact-checking service: today's rumours under the microscope.
factuel.afp.com ↗Les Décodeurs
Le Monde's fact-checking section (in French).
lemonde.fr ↗Google Fact Check Explorer
Search whether a claim has already been fact-checked by a media outlet, worldwide.
toolbox.google.com ↗InVID-WeVerify
A browser extension to trace where an image or video comes from and spot edits.
weverify.eu ↗TinEye
Find where a photo first appeared: the "breaking news" image is often ten years old.
tineye.com ↗Wayback Machine
See what a page looked like before it was edited or deleted.
web.archive.org ↗
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Report
Illegal content or a scam: don't share it, report it.
PHAROS
The official French platform for reporting illegal online content.
internet-signalement.gouv.fr ↗Cybermalveillance.gouv.fr
Help and advice against hacking, phishing and scams (in French).
cybermalveillance.gouv.fr ↗
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Take back control of your attention
Long-term treatment against brainrot, no miracle app needed.
Couper les notifications non essentielles
Keep calls and messages from people you know. Everything else can wait until you decide to look.
Désactiver la lecture automatique
In video platform settings: the next video no longer starts on its own, and you get your stop button back.
Fixer des limites d'usage
Screen Time on iPhone, Digital Wellbeing on Android: a limit per app is a prescription you write for yourself.
Lire l'article, pas seulement le titre
Before sharing, open the link. A shocking headline is made to be shared, not to be accurate.
Attendre dix minutes quand on est en colère
Disinformation bets on emotion. Anger that still holds ten minutes later may be worth sharing. The rest rarely is.
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Learn
For you, your teams or your students.
CLEMI
Media and information literacy resources for schools and families (in French).
clemi.fr ↗Lumni
Free educational videos, including many on media literacy (in French).
lumni.fr ↗Le MOOC BRAINROT-DETOX
Our free course on information warfare. Coming soon.
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