Tristan Mendès France

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Born7 March 1970
Bordeaux
NationalityFrench
Alma materSorbonne
ParentsMichel Mendes France
Member ofIntegrity Initiative/Cluster/France
Interests • “hate speech”
• internet censorship
Relatives • Pierre Mendès France
• Joan Mendes France
Part of the French cluster of the intelligence service operation Integrity Initiative, now working to implement internet censorship through his Stop hate money project.

Tristan Mendès France is a French essayist and documentary director. He works in the digital field.

He was part of the French cluster of the intelligence service operation Integrity Initiative, and works to implement internet censorship through his Stop hate money project, which aims to block money to dissident websites by pressuring financial institutions to stop working with them.

Early Life

Tristan Mendès France was born in 1970 in Bordeaux. He is son of Joan and Michel Mendès France, and grandson of former Prime Minister Pierre Mendès France.[1]

In 1995, he obtained a master 's degree in public law at the University of Paris 1, then turned to political science studies at the Sorbonne where he specialized in new communication technologies. He received a degree in political science in 1996 and began a thesis (which he did not complete) under the direction of Lucien Sfez at CREDAP (Centre for research and studies on administrative and political decision-making.

Political and activist career

In the 1990s, he was active in Ras l'front,an organization against the Front National. He was a director of the association Together Against the Death Penalty until 2007, and supported the Anticor association (founded by the magistrate Éric Halphen, whose aim is to "fight against corruption and restore ethics in policy”).[2]

A member of the "scientific committee" of the journal ProChoix he has been a pro-abortion activist since 1998. He is a director of the Institut Pierre-Mendès-France, of which he was also secretary general.[3]

Career

He was the parliamentary assistant to socialist senator Michel Dreyfus-Schmidt from 1998 to 2008[4].

Since the end of 2008, he has been teaching at CELSA [5], where he teaches courses on new digital cultures. He is an associate lecturer at the University of Paris since September 2018[6].

Media activities

He participated in a series of radio programs on politics and history on the Jewish channel RCJ from 1996 to 2001[7] and was a columnist for TOC magazine. He is also an occasional radio columnist on France Culture and on France Inter. On December 4, 2020, he became a columnist for France Inter.[8]

From 2006 , he developed, with Alban Fischer, a participatory video-blog-report on subjects such as the genocide by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the Armenian genocide in Turkey and, in May 2007, on the issue of refugees from Darfur, in partnership with the National Audiovisual Institute (Ina)[9] . This led them to make A Day in Gaga: Darfur Refugee Camp[10], a documentary produced by Ina.

He launched a satirical web-documentary on the Burmese dictatorship: Happy World[11] in 2011.

In 2019, he launched the Stop hate money project, the objective of which is to "make responsible the actors and financial intermediaries who facilitate (sometimes without knowing it) the spread of hate speech online".[12]



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