Gossip: the controversial rumor app is back!

After suffering the wrath of high school student unions, associations that fight school bullying, and then directly the Minister of Education, who was the creator of the practice. ordered to withdraw his application French Gossip from Android and Apple download platforms. The truce is now over, Gossip has just opened his doors.

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Created by Cindy Mouly, inspired by the Gossip Girl series, Gossip is a group chat app like Twitter or Snapchat. The small difference is that this is completely anonymous and is dedicated to the spread of gossip, rumors and even scratch inventions, to the detriment of the person these posts are targeting, of course. If the method changes, the result remains the same.

If those 140-character gossip, photos or videos that have panicked download counts appear for only ten seconds, the damage can be done in a much shorter time. Because if Cindy Mouly wanted to design a “good boy” app, she wouldn’t have trusted some malicious people who slander and abuse teenagers. For this reason, it was necessary to stay out of sight for a while.

After two weeks of withdrawal, Gossip returns, now armed with a tougher policy. It is strictly prohibited for minors, the information to be given will be much more detailed than the creator and above all the posts made will be revised more seriously by the moderators so that after five warnings the user will be banned.

All these steps are just welcome here, to prove that someone is really 18 years old, it’s enough to roughly tick a box… level verification, what we’ve given you is a bit weak. Legally, the application seen as an aid to the abuser, a “tool-providing”so he could fall under the law and earn his designer the title of accomplice for harassment.