DISINFO: French first lady, Brigitte Macron, doesn’t exist

DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS

  • Outlet: pravda-fr.com ( archive, original )
  • Date of publication: January 09, 2024
  • Article language(s): French
  • Countries / regions discussed: France

DISINFO: French first lady, Brigitte Macron, doesn’t exist

SUMMARY

Fact checking proves that nothing is true in the biography of Brigitte Macron. Furthermore, Facial Reconnaissance and Artificial Intelligence technologies established that the character known as Brigitte Macron is in fact a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux.

RESPONSE

Conspiracy theory trying to deny the existence of French first lady as a fictional character played by a transgender person to erode the position of the French President by creating distrust and mystery around his family.

The narrative was first promoted by a variety of extreme right, antivax and yellow vest-demonstrators' accounts in 2021 before the presidential campaign of 2022 started. The first lady, Brigitte Macron took legal actions against the spread of this baseless rumor. This rumor reemerged in January 2024 when Gabriel Attal was expected to be appointed as the next Prime Minister.

Read also related cases such as: Macron is a mouthpiece of the Rothschilds, whereas Europe is a puppet of the US and Vatican, or Emmanuel Macron got divorced from his first wife because she couldn’t stand his homosexual affairs or Emmanuel Macron doesn't have children because he doesn't care about world's future, or French president is the symbol of Western moral decay, which caused the coronavirus.

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