Online Reactions to the #MeToo Movement

The revelations of the Greek athlete Sofia Bekatorou, a sailing champion, that she had been victim sexual harassment by high sports official were beginning #MeToo in January 2021. triggered, among other reactions, or supportive responses on one hand, and openly indirectly misogynistic comments other, whether press social networks. In present study, we examine several hypotheses put forward with this previous research. More precisely, aim to check identified discursive strategies used mainstream media are also found Twitter. We will be focusing syntactic lexical choices encouraging feeling empathy towards accused opposite, contempt. research is contrastive since work articles posted newspapers France Greece. theoretical framework Critical discourse analysis, emphasizes analysis established resisted power relations through choices.