The dirty tricks campaign against the Macrons illustrates how easily fiction can be turned into fact with just a few clicks and a hashtag in today’s world. Ludicrous, maybe, but a YouGov survey this year found that a greater proportion of French and American people were likely to believe conspiracy theories (38 and 33 per cent respectively) than their British counterparts (19 per cent). The ‘trigger’ for the pseudo-investigation in Faits et Documents - ‘The Mystery of Brigitte Macron’ - was her ‘physique’, according to Miss Rey, who claimed that ‘experts’, including cosmetic surgeons, ‘all agree with me that is a transsexual’. The attack on Mrs Macron has led to fears of the ‘trumpization’ of political debate in France, with fake news being used to potentially sway voters, particularly by the far-Right who already enjoy widespread popular support Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, a rebranding of Le Pen’s National Front, secured a first-place finish in France in the last European election and Eric Zemmour, who uses the language of Enoch Powell, has been riding high in the polls both will challenge Macron in the upcoming presidential election.
The attack on Mrs Macron has led to fears of the ‘trumpization’ of political debate in France, with fake news being used to potentially sway voters, particularly by the far-Right who already enjoy widespread popular support. Websites associated with the far-Right, anti-vaxxers, the Yellow Vests anti-government movement and QAnon extremists, who believe the US is in the grip of devil-worshipping child abusers, spread the false claims. The dirty tricks campaign against the Macrons illustrates how easily fiction can be turned into fact with just a few clicks and a hashtag in today’s worldĪnd Brigitte? Her birth name, she claimed, was Jean-Michel Trogneux - the boy in the checked shirt in the photograph - before ‘he’ became a transgender woman and underwent a sex change operation in the early 1980s.Īlmost immediately the ‘story’ began circulating widely on social media under the hashtag #JeanMichelTrogneux.
The little girl sitting on her mother’s knee, she claimed, is probably Natalie Farcy, who was orphaned when Brigitte’s older sister, Maryvonne, was killed in a car crash, along with her husband, Paul Farcy, when Brigitte was very young. In the interview, she referred to the old Trogneux family photograph.
The claim initially went unnoticed when the small monthly publication went to press with the results of its so-called ‘three-year investigation’ into Mrs Macron in September.īut when ‘correspondent’ Natasha Rey - who contributes to the journal and has a history of attacking the Macrons on Facebook - gave an interview on YouTube earlier this month, the allegations went viral online. The false claim made by far-Right magazine Faits et Documents (Facts & Documents) is that Brigitte Macron, 68, was born male. The claim initially went unnoticed when the small monthly publication went to press with the results of its so-called ‘three-year investigation’ into Mrs Macron in SeptemberĬould anyone, least of all Brigitte herself, have imagined that more than half-a-century on it would be used in a smear campaign to destroy her by the far-Right?Įven by their poisonous standards the latest conspiracy theory aimed at undermining Mrs Macron in the run-up to the French presidential election in April, when her husband will be pitted against two Right-wing populists, plumbs new depths.
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