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		</div><p>At least five French male journalists have been suspended for allegedly co-ordinating the online harassment of others through a private Facebook group, amid a wave of anger over their actions.</p>
<p>French newspaper Liberation and cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles announced they have suspended four journalists, including the creator of the &#8220;League of LOL&#8221; group that included Parisian journalists, publicists and communication designers.</p>
<p>At least three other members of the group have been suspended by their employers and another has quit.</p>
<p>Liberation last week reported that some members of the group allegedly harassed other web users with sexist, homophobic and racist insults, mostly between 2009 and 2012.</p>
<p>The group has been dubbed a &#8220;boys club&#8221; by French media in reference to its apparent macho culture.</p>
<p>In recent days, several people including some female journalists have publicly accused group members of cyberbullying.</p>
<p>The publishing director of Liberation, Laurent Joffrin, said in a column that the &#8220;shameful&#8221; allegations made him nauseous.</p>
<p>He denounced &#8220;harassment, insults, salacious pranks &#8211; all kind of digital aggressions&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Glad wrote that he now feels &#8220;horrified to see one of my tweets from 2013 where I joked about rape culture. I am ashamed&#8221;.</p>
<p>David Doucet, editor in chief of Les Inrockuptibles&#8217; website, acknowledged on his Twitter account that he was the author of two prank phone calls to a science video maker, Florence Porcel.</p>
<p>Ms Porcel says she was the target of a pornographic photo montage and a phone call in which group members made her believe they were prominent TV producers offering her a job, before posting the recording online to humiliate her.</p>
<p>Other Twitter users said they had been repeatedly insulted with tweets and photo montages from the group mocking their ethnic backgrounds, physical appearances or political and feminist opinions.</p>
<p>Other Twitter users said they had been repeatedly insulted with tweets and photo montages from the group mocking their ethnic backgrounds, physical appearances or political and feminist opinions.</p>
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