It’s because Le Monde is a state-sponsored media.
“Total State-Sponsored Subventions Received by Le Monde Since Macron Became President (2017–2023)
Total: €32,184,649
[…]” (check the detailed calculations given by grok 👇)
In just the 7 weeks following my arrest in Paris, Le Monde published 40 negative articles about Telegram. In violation of journalistic ethics, they did not ask us for a comment in 37 of these 40 articles and always ignored the factual corrections we sent them. 🤦♂️