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France: Michel Barnier targeted by a new deepfake
Is France considering lowering the speed limit on motorways, from 130 to 90 km/h? The fake news has been making the rounds on social networks in recent days. This false…
2024 Olympics: security measures to protect against false information
A few hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, a major security perimeter is in place around the Seine. In total, more than 45,000 police officers and…
A gasoline shortage expected in France? Beware of this fake news
Will a huge gasoline shortage paralyze France from July 15? This is what several videos published on TikTok in recent days wrongly claim. To deceive Internet users, the accounts behind…
No, the dissolution does not open the way to a third term for Emmanuel Macron
In France, reactions were very numerous as soon as the results were announced last Sunday and a series of posts appeared suggesting that the dissolution of the national assembly announced…
Paris: the May 1 parade wrongly presented as a racist demonstration
Did a racist demonstration take place recently in Paris? This is what a video actively broadcast on social networks and spotted by the RFI editorial staff in Nairobi claims to…
Fake Newspaper Covers Fuel Bed Bug Narrative
Nothing is off the table to prevent Russia from winning the war in Ukraine, not even sending ground troops. Since Emmanuel Macron held this position at the end of February,…
Wearing a mask again targeted by misinformation
As France faces a ninth wave of Covid-19, the government is considering a possible return to the mandatory mask in public transport. A news that provoked an outcry from the…
Legislative in France: conspiracy and fake news sanctioned by the ballot box
The tone is rising in the home stretch of the campaign for the second round of legislative elections. Nevertheless, the observation of the results of the first round seems to…
#Fraud: the myth of the rigged French presidential election
Since Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the second round of the French presidential election on Sunday April 24, some have claimed on social networks that the election was rigged. A massive…
French presidential: the integrity of the election targeted by fake news
Three weeks before the French presidential election, a disinformation operation is trying to tarnish the legitimacy of the ballot. Taking advantage of a campaign context disrupted by the war in…