For several months now, the story has been circulating that Brigitte Trogneux (her maiden name) was born in 1953 as Jean-Michel Trogneux. The fact that she has three children does not change that. She is the father of the children, a reality hidden by a huge conspiracy, according to the authors of the story.
That Brigitte Macron would be transgender was first announced on the Facebook page of ‘unofficial journalist’ Natacha Rey, a fierce opponent of vaccinations and President Macron’s ‘health dictatorship’. After that, the idea spread further on sites and social media of the extreme right, antivaxers and yellow vests. Rey even posed for a photo with controversial comedian Dieudonné, convicted of anti-Semitism.
The newspaper The world believes that the issue should not be blown up. The episode reveals the French media’s obsession that the 2022 French presidential election could be parasitized by defamatory conspiracy theories, as happened in the last two US elections. The world. In 2016, supporters of Donald Trump believed that Democrats led by Hillary Clinton were running a pedophile network out of a pizza parlor in Washington. In 2020, the QAnon theory caused a furore, which proclaimed that the elite were guilty of abusing children in satanic rituals.
After American example
The campaign against Brigitte Macron is inspired by American examples, complete with the accusation that she is a satanic child molester. But for now, the theory about ‘Jean-Michel Trogneux’ is nowhere near the strength of QAnon in the United States, states The world. In a week there were 60 thousand tweets about it, not very many. In addition, there were numerous tweets that rejected or mocked the theory.
The main community of French QAnon supporters, the DéQodeurs, called the story a “stupidity”, or even an attempt to discredit the conspiracy theorists by spreading a totally improbable story.
Internet defamation is also not a completely new phenomenon in France. In 2017, the story circulated that presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron would be in a homosexual relationship with the boss of Radio France. The rumor was so persistent that Macron was forced to state publicly that he slept with Brigitte every night.
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