Nadia Daam (born 1978) is a French journalist.

Life

Brought up in

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to a Moroccan family, Daam obtained a

Baccalauréat The ''baccalauréat'' (; ), often known in France colloquially as the ''bac'', is a French national academic qualification that students can obtain at the completion of their secondary education (at the end of the ''lycée'') by meeting certain ...

in 1996 at the International School of Pontonniers. She studied at Lycée Victor-Hugo in Paris, she also obtained a bachelor of performance art, at

La Sorbonne The University of Paris (french: link=no, Université de Paris), Metonymy, metonymically known as the Sorbonne (), was the leading university in Paris, France, active from 1150 to 1970, with the exception between 1793 and 1806 under the French Revo ...

Nouvelle Paris 3. She started to work for the newspaper ''

Libération ''Libération'' (), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Initially positioned on the far-left of France's ...

'' in 2000. For two years she was in charge of personal ads. In 2008, she published the essay ''Mauvaises mères!'' and became a columnist at ''Les Maternelles'' on France 5. Subsequently, she collaborated with

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, Arte (a 28-minute show) and

Europe 1 Europe 1, formerly known as Europe n° 1, is a privately owned radio station created in 1955. Owned and operated by Lagardère Active, a subsidiary of the Lagardère Group, it is one of the leading radio broadcasting stations in France and its pro ...

, among others.

Controversy of 2017

In October 2017, Clara Gonzales and Elliot Lepers, two feminist activists were victims of harassment calls by writers of the forum "Blabla 18–25 ans" of the website

Jeuxvideo.com ''Jeuxvideo.com'' (from ''jeux vidéo''; ; ) is a French video gaming website founded in 1997. History The website traces its history to a video game hint collection on Minitel, a precursor to the World Wide Web, and was founded by Sébastien ...

, following the creation of an emergency number allowing women to give a phone number when a stalker asks them. Messages were sent to their numbers from mobile apps. They have since been the subject of cyberbullying on Twitter and the number has harassed people making themselves vulnerable . The public's reaction to the controversy caused an influx of complaint number calls, the director of Jeuxvideo.com, Cédric Page, condemned "these actions" while defending the forum, saying that "it is simply the expression of this generation". The forum was regularly blamed for propagating

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and otherwise known according to the newspaper Libération to be a scaremonger for anti-feminist activists. On 1 November 2017, Daam talked about a chronicle on Europe 1, and attacked the forum 18–25, calling it among other things "non-recyclable trash". She started an anti-harassment rally to boost solidarity for media corporations. A petition, signed by a hundred journalists, completely agreed with her, designating members of the forum as "cowardly, shabby and despicable beings", calling "the police and the community of the web" to prevent them doing further harm. Secretary of State for Equality between Women and Men

Marlène Schiappa Marlène Schiappa (, ; born 18 November 1982) is a French writer and politician who served as Minister Delegate in charge of Citizenship, attached to the Minister of the Interior, in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex (2020–2022) an ...

also called Twitter and

Webedia Webedia is a global company specializing in online media, a subsidiary of the Fimalac group. Based in France, its head office is at located 2 rue Paul Vaillant-Couturier in Levallois-Perret, France. Its founders are Cédric Siré and Guillaume Mu ...

, the company owning jeuxvideo.com. Europe 1 radio reported that it had filed a complaint about the threat of violence against people. The owner of Webedia said that "the topics evoking this Nadia Daam were systematically erased as a preventative measure".

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Daam, Nadia 1978 births Living people French women journalists French people of Moroccan descent French television journalists Writers from Strasbourg