Algeria Claims Media War Waged by Morocco, France, and Others

After the French recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara, is Morocco and its ally, France, harming Algeria? In a dispatch, the APS accuses Morocco and France, and other countries of waging a "media war" against Algeria and its institutions from "obscure offices" that would use artificial intelligence and deep fake techniques. These offices would have used search engines, manipulated algorithms and created "thousands of websites with armies of journalists".

The author of the article claims that there are dozens of editorial offices at the level of television channels and international newspapers in the Gulf and Europe that are subject to the domination of the "French media lobby, involved alongside the Moroccan regime of the Makhzen in disinformation operations, blackmail and corruption in the media in exchange for serving undisclosed agendas and disseminating an anti-Algerian discourse". According to him, the latest statements in this sense by the Minister of Communication Mohamed Meziane, who is "from diplomacy and is an expert in the battle of soft power that is being waged in the media field", "have lifted the veil on a small part of the practices" of these "multinational media brigades recruited by the intelligence agencies of the Axis of Evil to distort everything Algerian".

The Algerian minister had indicated that 9,000 journalists hostile to Algeria have been mobilized around the world. He "did not express himself in this way in a vacuum, but rather on the basis of data," says the APS, citing some observers. To counter this war, Algeria uses "practical high-tech applications and by Algerian hands," assures the Algerian state press agency.