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False Claims about Macron and This Year’s Agricultural Fair

Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 11/3/2024; Author: Maida Salkanović A recently circulated photo falsely suggests that French President Emmanuel Macron was seen fleeing from farmers at this year’s agricultural fair. The photo also falsely claims that he was banned from attending the fair. Neither of these statements are true. On February 24, 2024, a […]

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France Was Not the First Country to Enshrine Abortion Rights in Its Constitution

Original article (in Croatian) was published on 7/3/2024; Author: Anja Vladisavljević While France is set to become the first country to explicitly include the right to ‘voluntary termination of pregnancy’ in its Constitution, it is worth noting that the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) previously offered protection of similar significance, albeit in less explicit terms, […]

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The News Claiming a Planned Assassination of Macron in Ukraine Is False

Original article (in BCS) was published on 23/2/2024; Author: Amar Karađuz Claims that Ukrainian authorities planned to assassinate the French President to blame Russia and provoke a reaction in the West originated from a “deepfake” video. On February 15, 2024, the web portal Borba (.info) published an article about a supposed report by France 24 television, […]

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The photo of stacked hay bales in front of the Eiffel Tower is AI-generated

Original article (in Croatian) was published on 5/2/2024; Author: Ivica Kristović Last week, farmers in France did indeed block roads. However, the circulating photo was created using the Midjourney tool. On February 3, a Facebook profile named “Hrvatski krski pasnjaci” shared a photo (archived here) depicting a tractor and a stack of hay bales in front […]

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The protest held in front of a McDonald’s in France has nothing to do with Gaza

Original article (in BCS) was published on 30/11/2023; Author: Marija Manojlović In a recent display of discontent, farmers in the French town of Vesoul unloaded a truck full of manure in front of a local McDonald’s restaurant. The reason was the fast-food giant’s decision to import meat from overseas, which they saw as undermining local […]

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The French ambassador to Ukraine did not resign

Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 26/10/2022 Fakenews is spreading on social networks that the French ambassador to Ukraine, Etienne de Poncins, has resigned and left this country.   On October 19, 2022, a screenshot of a post by a Facebook user under the name RT Afrique was published on the Telegram channel Code 17. […]

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It is not true that Macron is not in favor of sanctions against Russia

Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 28/02/2022 Russian state media Sputnik published a claim on its Serbian-language website that “France is in favor of dialogue”, while other EU leaders are “in favor of sanctions” against Russia due to the invasion of Ukraine. This is disinformation. An article published on the website Sputnik on February […]