“If no one listens to social networks, we will experience a permanent insurgency threat”

IThere are books written by politicians that we can easily do without. This one is different. Contrary to the ritual lamentos over violence and the toxicity of social networks, Nelly Garnier (elected LR to the Council of Paris and to the Île-de-France region) tries to think – successfully – on what they bring, or could bring , to democracy. Yes, there is a sometimes deleterious atmosphere, but we can only understand this drift by accepting to see what these networks are, a field of struggle for speech, both ring and springboard: “Influencers access the world powerful people without having the codes, without the right vocabulary or the right diploma. They experienced an ascent to which neither their birth nor social determinism predestined them. […] That’s all…