The most comical thing is that since the fiasco of October 17, to correct course, the Interior Ministry has to call on Visibrain, the French competitor ousted a year earlier. During the tender, Talkwalker obtained a technical score of 18 out of 30, nine points less than its French competitor.
We were able to reach a source within a ministerial monitoring unit, who spoke anonymously.
This choice comes as social networks, notably TikTok, serve as rapid relays for protesters in times of social anger.
If the new software costs less, it is also less effective.
Talkwalker only provides limited coverage of TikTok.
The issue: a tool that struggles to effectively detect videos shared millions of times on this platform.
According to our calculations, the system will cost at least 3.6 million euros, not counting the extra cost linked to using the French software that the government had discarded.