A recent report by Human Rights Watch accuses Burkina Faso’s armed forces of multiple abuses, particularly against the Fulani, an ethnic group regularly accused of supporting jihadists across West Africa. But President Ibrahim Traoré has a ready-made conspiracy-peddling explanation: a false-flag attack. “That’s what you call perfidy,” he says. “Terrorists come, they carry out massacres […]
After years of abuse, ten people have been found guilty of cyber bullying Brigitte Macron. Their claims included outright lies about her gender as well as allegations around the nature of her relationship with her husband, President Emmanuel Macron. But the legal action won't stop there, with the couple also suing the American right-wing influencer […]
Candace Owens is doubling down on her refuted claims of a French Plot to kill her - with Israeli help. Conspiracy Watch director Rudy Reichstadt has been interviewed by Euronews about the Candace Owens affair and her latest false allegations that Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron were involved in a plot to assassinate her — with […]
This week in Paris, ten people went on trial for cyber-bullying Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, by spreading a conspiracy theory as grotesque as it was absurd. For the most serious offenses, prosecutors sought suspended sentences ranging from three to twelve months. Yet Brigitte Macron herself has, in a sense, been […]
‘Nebulous’. ‘Far right’. ‘Conspiracist and anti-vax’. ‘Radical far left’: almost every label has been applied to the ‘Bloquons tout !’ (‘Let’s Block Everything!’, i.e. ‘Bring France to a Standstill!’) movement since it first emerged in early July in Telegram groups. So what exactly is it? Clearly, the reality of the movement is disparate, colorful, and […]
It began on the evening of Sunday 25 May, when Emmanuel Macron arrived in Vietnam with his wife, Brigitte, at the start of an official tour of Southeast Asia. As the pair disembarked at Hanoi airport, a few press agency cameras caught a fleeting moment: Brigitte Macron’s hand moved toward her husband’s face. He appeared […]
It often takes just one offhand remark, misinterpreted picture, or joke that doesn’t land to start a conspiracy theory that subsequently never goes away. We’ve seen it happen time after time – World Trade Center owner Larry Silverstein’s comment that the firefighting team working to save WTC 7 should be “pulled” serving as “proof” that […]
A relentless Kremlin campaign of disinformation and destabilisation aimed at bringing Marine Le Pen’s pro-Putin extreme right party to power in France has failed - for the moment. The upset result in the snap legislative elections placing the Rassemblement National (RN) in third place among parliamentary parties is a significant blow to Russian interests. Even […]
The French Embassy in South Africa has used humour and sarcasm to unmask a propaganda video fake being spread by official Moscow accounts purporting to feature a so-called “French soldier/mercenary” being “captured” in Ukraine by Russian forces. The video had been spread by conspiracist accounts claiming Western/Nato forces are already on the ground in Ukraine […]
A unique product "100 per cent Made in France" has gone global. Except there is no cause for celebration in Paris. The successful export is a vile slander, catapulted across social media by an international extreme right cabal that spans the Atlantic and specializes in French-bashing. Picking up on the repugnant falsehood accusing Brigitte Macron, […]
