Olympics: Emmanuel Macron, target of Russian propaganda fake news, Europe’s far right complicit with the Kremlin.
August 5, 2024 – If confirmed, the Russian propaganda against Emmanuel Macron, the Olympics and the IOC is very worrying. From the controversy surrounding the opening ceremony to the boxing match with the Algerian athlete, there is no doubt that there is a common thread: we are dealing with fake news (the painting was not that of the Last Supper and the Algerian athlete is indeed a woman), deliberately inflated by the European and American right, with the obvious complicity of the Kremlin, as shown by the intervention of the IBA, chaired by a Russian tycoon, linked to the giant Gazprom.
It is no coincidence that one of the targets is Emmanuel Macron, who is currently the European leader most opposed to the Moscow regime. Everything is written in Russian hybrid warfare manuals: divisive subjects are chosen (yesterday migrants, abortion, the green deal, women’s rights, today LGBT rights) to stir up opposition and thus fracture the West within itself and make it weaker.
What’s more, the fact that a social network like X, formerly Twitter, is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is one of the nodes of this propaganda network complicates the situation.
The sooner the European Union succeeds in responding effectively to these genuine attacks on its fundamental values of freedom, respect, tolerance and welcome, by actually implementing the rules adopted during the last parliamentary term, the healthier our democracies will be.
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