AgoraVox was one of the first citizen journalism websites in France, and is similar to the community sites L'Echo du Village (1998) and Indymedia (1999).
[3] The company Cybion, created by Carlo Revelli and Joël de Rosnay, is behind this project and provides its funding.
The starting point was Carlo Revelli's research on strategic intelligence on the Internet: "Indeed, beyond the enterprise, which will revolutionize individual behavior on the Internet, it is this "watchman attitude", which is to keep your eyes open and to enrich yourself at all levels: whether to find unpublished information, check a rumor, enrich your knowledge, forge your beliefs, compare prices of a book, identify the surgeon who introduced the latest technology to treat a rare disease, etc.
The Editorial Board is composed of members of the team of editors and AgoraVox moderators, each of whom have published at least four articles on the site.
Originally, in order to be a member of the Drafting Committee, it was necessary to have already published a number of articles on AgoraVox and be recognized as an editor of "quality".
This is the first filter when requesting a publication, with the original AgoraVox team taking responsibility, once a quorum of approval is received, to make a final check before validation.
Articles can be changed in form or reproduced by the Foundation via AgoraVox's media partners, and their commercial exploitation is not excluded.
On 5 February 2007, during a television chat-show, French journalist Tristane Banon alleged that Dominique Strauss-Kahn had sexually assaulted her in 2002 during the course of an interview while she was researching Erreurs avouées:"It ended really badly.
[citation needed] The German broadcaster Deutsche Welle elected AgoraVox "Best Journalistic Blog in French" in 2005.