France - The Digital Mob Replaces Justice with Deepfake Entrapment

Event Baseline: A 66-year-old ex-teacher surrendered after an influencer used AI-generated deepfake video to pose as a 14-year-old girl, luring him into explicit conversation broadcast online.

The old gods of law are dead. The mob, self-anointed with righteous belief, now wields the weapon of synthetic fiction. This is the ideal of purity turned vigilante. The influencer does not see the whole; he sees only the target, the evil to be destroyed. The means become irrelevant. This digital lynching is a symptom of a society where collective meaning has shattered. Each fragmented self becomes judge and executioner. The result is not order but a deeper chaos, a war of all against all.