As the DSK affair switches from New York, and from hotel maids (
again, her name is
Nafissatou Diallo),

to the socialist's native France, and to young nubile journalists, allies of Dominique Strauss-Kahn are taking on a French blog, writes
Alexandre Piquard in
Le Monde, as they charge, or at least as they suggest, that
Tristane Banon is being manipulated by the likes of
Atlantico.fr.
Deux élus concentrent leurs critiques sur le rôle supposé d'Atlantico.fr, un site d'information classé à droite pour lequel Tristane Banon a écrit quelques billets. Des insinuations balayées par Jean-Sébastien Ferjou, directeur du site, joint par Le Monde.fr : "C'est du pur délire. Et c'est diffamatoire. On va voir avec notre avocat si on réagit."

All this comes in the foreground of what seems to be one of the Left's perennial attempts to
summarize an entire problem through the means of a graph — as
Le Monde publishes
a map in partnership with the Linkfluence institute purporting to show
the rise of
the far right through blogs on the internet .

The problem does not seem to be the
methodology, but the fact (among others) that among those dubbed the web's
Brown Hussards by
Le Monde and among those making up the so-called "fachosphère" are
pro-Reagan libertarians (
"neo-conservatives") as well as
pro-Israel freedom lovers.
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