Emmanuel Macron

Were Nancy Pelosi and "other Deep Staters" arrested at a President Joe Biden banquet in a faux White House owned by filmmaker Tyler Perry? No, that's not true: No branch of the U.S. military is allowed to arrest civilians, per the Posse Comitatus Act. This claim comes from a website that regularly produces fabricated headlines and classifies themselves as a…

Did Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical weekly, mock Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by portraying him on its cover as "an obedient dog" eating out of a "European" dog dish? No, that's not true. The publication has stated that this cover image and two similar ones circulating online are fake. The weekly now charges that "Russian propagandists" on Telegram "are creating…

Did a French television station's display showing French President Emmanuel Macron behind 217,571 votes prove election fraud? No, that's not true: An election night broadcast that aired numbers showing Macron behind opponent Marine Le Pen was a glitch in the software used by a French TV station to tally votes with numbers directly from the Ministry of the Interior. It…

Did French President Emmanuel Macron make a campaign promise that "Europe must be ready to accept up to 60 million refugees over the next 20 years from Africa and the Middle East"? No, that's not true: This is a fake tweet that is designed to look like a BBC News report from April 11, 2022. The BBC has confirmed this…

Does this collection of photos together with this caption accurately portray protests against COVID-19 vaccine passports and mandates that took place for several weeks in July and August of 2021 in France? No, many of the photos currently circulating on social media are miscaptioned, and either inaccurately represent a recent French protest photo, or they show an entirely different protest…

Did France and Australia suspend their COVID-19 vaccination programs and say vaccine is a fraud? No, that's not true. Both France and Australia are continuing their vaccination programs to protect people from coronavirus infection. The claim originated as a post (archived here) where it was published by Alex Jones and Infowars.com on January 31, 2021, under the title "MAJOR GOVERNMENTS…

Did French President Macron deploy Army tanks to the streets of France to tackle the yellow vest protests? No, that's not true: he did order the deployment of army troops alongside regular security forces of the Gendarmerie but no tanks were deployed. The rumor seems to have originated with a single journalist that seemed to have some difficulty with the…

Was the "EU Army" deployed to the streets of Paris to "crush" the "French Revolution" this weekend? No, that's not true: the claim came from a notoriously unreliable website that tries to make money by luring in people with explosive headlines that often misrepresent what actually happened in order to earn money with advertising. It is not true. The story…

Was Alexandre Benalla, a disgraced aide of French President Macron who was filmed beating up a protester on May 1st, also the neighbour of Mamoudou Gassama, the Malinese illegal immigrant who saved a child from falling off a balcony by quickly climbing up and who got naturalised for his heroism? No, that's not true: the part about Benalla was made…

Did French President Emmanuel Macron knowingly grant political asylum to an ISIS chief? No, that's not exactly true. Ahmed Hamdane Mahmoud Ayach El Aswadi posed as a refugee when he arrived in France in the summer of 2016. He was granted refugee status in June 2017, shortly after Emmanuel Macron took office in May 2017. The President of France does…