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Fake Video Claiming ‘Coup in France’ Goes Viral – Not Even Macron Could Immediately Get It Removed

Summary by France24
Sometime in the second week of December, an improbable video began making the rounds on French-language social media. France, it claimed, was subject to a coup d’état, and President Emmanuel Macron had…

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France's President Emmanuel Macron attacked Facebook over a fake video about an alleged coup d'état in France. On display is an alleged journalist next to the Élysée Palace, who falsely reported that a colonel had taken over power. At the request of the Élysée Palace, the online network simply refused to remove the twelve million-times clicked video, Macron echauffed in Marseille. To justify this, the US company had announced that the video did …

·Vienna, Austria
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DECRYPTAGE - The author of the video ended up deleting this content on Facebook from himself, but copies are still circulating. The inaction of the social network aroused the anger of Emmanuel Macron.

·Paris, France
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Video - In front of the readers of "La Provence", the President of the Republic is violently taken, on 16 December, to Facebook and his mother house, Meta, after their refusal to delete a sequence, generated by IA and seen more than 13 million times.

·Paris, France
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The President of the Republic is increasing travel on the fight against online misinformation.

·Paris, France
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During a meeting with readers of the newspaper La Provence, French President Emmanuel Macron criticized the social network for refusing to remove a video generated by AI, announcing a coup d'état in France.

·France
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BFM TV broke the news in France on Tuesday, December 16, 2025.
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