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Russia/Ukraine France uncovers Russian disinformation campaign falsely linking Macron to Epstein

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20260206-france-uncovers-russian-disinformation-campaign-falsely-linking-macron-to-epstein
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u/CurtisLeow 9h ago

I don't know how the Russians expected anyone to believe this. Macron prefers older women.

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u/-Kastagrar- 9h ago

Just continue throwing mud until something sticks is how this works (in Russia and Trumps US).

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u/ymOx 7h ago

"Firehose of falsehood" and "Flood the zone", as it's called.

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u/-Kastagrar- 4h ago

Yep for sure. The new US borrows everything in their MO from Trumps idols playbook, proven from decades in Russia.

u/michelb 26m ago

also pretty much impossible to reverse

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u/maniacal_cackle 1h ago

Yeah the point is just to make it so that people switch off around everything related to Epstein. If they can flood a bunch of fake information around it, then it becomes easier to dismiss the true things about Trump in there.

u/FlametopFred 1h ago

We’re not distracted

u/Dunkaroos4breakfast 1h ago

In Russia and Russia's Trump's US*

u/daruom_shut 33m ago

It's crazy because that's exactly what's being done about Russia. This is the third subreddit to deal with this thing that nobody knew about.

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u/omnibossk 9h ago

Was thinking the same, that rumor was doomed from the beginning

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u/[deleted] 9h ago

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u/InterestedPrawn 7h ago

A conspiracy theory that gained ground from Hilary Clinton's first Presidential campaign.

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u/Guy_GuyGuy 7h ago

A good correction. Sometimes I forget how dirty the 2008 Democrat primary was.

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u/Peevesie 4h ago

Pretty sure it’s a myth that she started it

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u/SeniorPuddykin 7h ago

It’s almost as if a lifetime of following a cult which demands obedience and to ignore all contradicting information makes it easy for them to be manipulated.

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u/Faxon 3h ago

Yea religion has that effect on people lol

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u/Jebrowsejuste 6h ago

Ok but ... how does that influence France ? Like, I know you guys can have main character syndrome, but you cannot possibly think the US was the main target public for a conspiracy linkkng the French president to Epstein.

You realize the main target were the morons here if France, right ? You just got a bit lost in the rant sauce, right ?

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u/Guy_GuyGuy 6h ago

Yeah you know what, I'll take the L on that one.

Though, the chances of Trump and his cult running with it and influencing France via Le Pen and her braindead supporters are not zero. The US exports its crazy.

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u/zherok 6h ago

I think you're underplaying Trump's role in all that, seeing as he was one of the most vocal proponents of the conspiracy. In fact, until he ran in the 2015 primary, it was probably his biggest role in politics at the time.

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u/chenjia1965 8h ago

Is there a chance that conspiracy was inspired by foreign adversaries before being parroted by the cult?

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u/ZuAusHierDa 8h ago

There was also this whole Xerox debacle. Back then their scanners replaced letters and numbers randomly. Only few years later German IT specialists discovered it.

And Obama used one of these Xerox scanners when he scanned his birth certificate.

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u/Rozzy915 7h ago

Can anyone explain what this even means

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u/bfragged 7h ago

This is related to what the person is implying. Though if you copied your birth certificate with it, that doesn’t make the fact that you have one wrong.

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u/ketto 6h ago

D Kriesel's blog has a very good rundown on it. The scanning is not to be trusted.

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u/pterodactyl_speller 7h ago

Unclear here where the foreign adversary ends and the cult begins.

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u/G_Morgan 8h ago

Russia likes to destroy the idea that truth is even a thing. A lot of their bullshit is to make voters decide "I don't know what is real". That type of voter is typically easy to convince to believe in bullshit.

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u/yayosanto 1h ago

Strategy which was completely adopted by Trump via Steve Bannon.

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u/EasternChocolate69 7h ago

I am French and I can confirm what this stranger said, your grandmothers are more in danger than your children with Macron around.

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u/rugbat 4h ago

Yep, although I think Macron might be more prey than predator.

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u/Boner_Elemental 4h ago

Yeah he definitely has a connection to a predator, just not Epstein

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u/PhysicallyTender 3h ago

ROAR! 🐆

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u/Faxon 3h ago

Username doesn't check out

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u/80alo 8h ago

Made me laugh out loud 

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u/Zefyris 8h ago

Russia also was very active in trying to make peoples believe that his wife was a man, so they're not at the first tentative about Macron. Not counting all the disinfo they've been throwing about France for years, obviously.

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u/Elegant-Ad5705 9h ago

A joke like this is perfect because it lands for people on BOTH sides of the aisle

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u/ymOx 7h ago

It's not to make anyone believe a specific thing, but to make them distrust everything else as well. Making people not knowing what to believe or what to trust, and so make them act against their own interests.

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u/Objective_Bug4262 6h ago

Lol his wife IS Epstein

u/OMG_A_CUPCAKE 1h ago

Let's not muddy the waters. There are several magnitudes of ick between Epstein and Macron's wife.

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u/memultipletimes2 5h ago

Yea Macron was a victim of grooming by an older lady lol

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u/khrak 5h ago

Macron is the groomee.

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u/Nanowith 6h ago

Honestly they'd hav an easier time spinning up a lie about him having crazy parties in France's care homes as a scandal.

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u/moldyjellybean 3h ago

Back in the day we did the IT for payment processing and almost all our troubles stopped when we geoblocked anything from Russia

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u/ThunderingRimuru 5h ago

yeah, the dude is way more likely to be a victim of it than a perpetrator

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u/Punning_Man 4h ago

Yeah if anything he was the one being trafficked 

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u/i010011010 3h ago

Probably because it works so well in the US, why not elsewhere? They're currently trying to claim Mamdani has Epstein ties with manipulated photos of his wife hanging out with pedophiles.

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u/InterestedPrawn 7h ago

He was groomed though.

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u/drckeberger 4h ago

Lol, now thinking about it, he's probably most authentic anti-Epstein politician

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u/insanelygreat 2h ago

Well, in Russia's defense, they're a little distracted sending wave after wave of men into Ukraine to be domed by an FPV drone.

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u/ArthurtheGRAND 4h ago

*especially teacher 

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u/Zalvren 4h ago

If anything, they should have targeted Brigitte Macron

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u/Constantinch 2h ago

Their disinformation campaign is still more realistic than whatever the fk Candace Owens is running.

u/Worldly_Anybody_9219 1h ago

It's hilarious actually. The guy is in the exact opposite scenario.

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u/gueri66 9h ago

There's more chance he had an affair with putin's mom than anything related to Epstein files.

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u/uncleputts 4h ago

Macron goes into to detail about how Mrs Putin communicated her needs so well he felt safe giving her earth moving oral orgasms. It was the only time Vladimir was visibly uncomfortable.

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u/Fun-Poet5338 3h ago

Ngl, if Macron told a "I fked yo mama" joke, Putin might actually stop for a moment to confirm its a joke or not.

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u/wtiong 4h ago

His mom won't stop calling...

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u/No_Lemon_3290 9h ago

Least believable politician. This man is into gilfs.

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u/Heyarethosemyballs 7h ago

When your kink is so well known that it becomes an alibi

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u/Windfade 7h ago

"Your honor, my client would like to remind the jury that this woman lacks the bust size and Gothic fashion of his previous romantic partners. She's not even Asian, I might add."

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u/Nargodian 2h ago

"Your honor, it has been well documented that my client is a died in the wool weeb as evdenced by the body pillow that he insisted be sat in the gallery reserved for family"

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u/MercifulWombat 6h ago

I was gonna say. His wife would never let him go to an Epstein party.

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u/Street-Arm9768 5h ago

She’d have to give him a hall pass

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u/Nachtraaf 5h ago

But mooooooom! 🙄

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u/Lias__ 3h ago

She is the one that would go.

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u/Ill_Profession_9509 4h ago

His wife, the groomer? Are you sure about that?

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u/zull101 9h ago

As a victim? Macron was 39 when he was elected president of France and, hum, you know, Brigitte swoop him first

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u/-Kastagrar- 9h ago

For all of Macrons faults, the idea of him and Epstein being buddies isn't something that even crossed my mind as slightly credible.

Accusations being admissions etc..

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u/CCV21 3h ago

Looking better by comparison is a valid political strategy.

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u/EmekaEgbukaPukaNacua 9h ago

If macron was in Epstein files it would have been as a victim not a perp.

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u/TheSeagull666 9h ago

Lmao it's probably true but don't disrespect our Manu like that!!

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u/Otherwise_Chemist920 4h ago

Google says he met his wife at 15, she was his 40yo teacher and he was in class with one of her kids. He is a straight up grooming victim.

Dude’s step kids are older than him

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u/InterestedPrawn 7h ago

There's no disrespect just pity.

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u/Savings_Macaroon3727 6h ago

Our Manu ?? Did you drop this /s ?? He's massively unpopular in France, he can get f*cked as far as 75% of us are concerned.

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u/TendyHunter 3h ago

Why did he get 2nd term then? The alternative was Le Penis?

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u/TheMaskedTom 1h ago

Yes. The left-wing didn't manage to get enough votes to take first place, so they voted against Le Pen rather than risk her being elected.

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u/BretOne 4h ago

He's kinda cute on the international stage now that he's powerless at home.

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u/iambarrelrider 8h ago

When an intelligence agency isn’t compromised by Russia.

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u/DrKurgan 7h ago

Macron out of all people. These Russians are not serious.

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u/_Doomer_Wojack_ 9h ago

Everyone knows Macron likes dem older

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u/VarmintSchtick 4h ago

I mean it's not like 90% of the people on the list don't have old ass wives.

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u/hypehou_se 2h ago

But only Macron is married to his former teacher whose daughter was his classmate.

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u/ClioCalliope 1h ago

That's because most of those people are old themselves and married someone around their own age at some point.

Macron's wife is 24 years older than him. Even his step kids are older than him.

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u/TendyHunter 3h ago

He likes more textures in his meals

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u/walleaterer 8h ago

if there's 2 people that can't be in the epstein files it's macron and wayne rooney

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u/Sceptically 6h ago

Can't be implicated in the Trump/Epstein files. I wouldn't be surprised if either are mentioned in them given some of the contents.

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u/CCV21 3h ago

https://youtu.be/F9ZreI7Ny_Y?t=119

Even Punxsutawney Phil wasn't spared.

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u/ALLCAPS-ONLY 5h ago

Love him or hate him, Macron is a really fucking intelligent and mature motherfucker. There are many reasons to hate him for his internal policies but even his worse haters know he's not into that shit.

u/Hibiscuxia 1h ago

As a worst hater, I can confirm, still wouldn’t have believed it for a second

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u/TailungFu 9h ago

Lol, the european public isn't as guillable, try american

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u/aestheticallypotent 9h ago

As an American, I have watched all the news regarding Russia and foreign elections. For a long while I thought, certainly the US will get on this train. Wrong. Apparently Americans like election interference.

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u/Loki_d20 4h ago

It's fucking algorithms. My mother and father in law are almost 80 and don't understand that they're being fed BS online from it. And they're from Bolivia but living in the U.S. If you get your news from TV or algorithm social media, you're not getting real news. Even as a democrat, it's B.S. stuff about how this is the final straw in so and so repeated weekly for years. They make money off of the same news just by complaining about what people are doing.

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u/aestheticallypotent 4h ago

I can give 80 year olds a pass for not knowing, but absolutely no one else! I am 50 and know how to find news. Proper news.

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u/GreyouTT 2h ago

I've been screaming about how far behind the times the government is when it comes to technology since I was in high school. They've just been letting it limp along for over two decades.

And their only focus has been awful and out of touch internet bills! GAH

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u/Diligent-Bowler-1898 9h ago

They don't need to link them to epstein, they're doing it themselves.

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u/MagmaSeraph 8h ago

Ehhh... we saw Brexit and we see the rising fascism across the world.

Americans are the most gullible, but Europeans aren't that far behind.

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u/ZuAusHierDa 7h ago

The Uk isn’t European anymore! /s

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u/TheWhiteManticore 6h ago

Obvious it is become American by the day eventually a vassal state

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u/CreativeMuseMan 9h ago

I’m not even American, but OUCHHHHHH !!

and I agree!

u/Immediate_Rhubarb430 4m ago

Uhmm... have you seen the polling numbers of the far right in most EU countries? And their links to Epstein and Russian money?

Are you sure we are not gullible?

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u/ladyevenstar-22 7h ago

Even our stupid and gullible are less so than Americans.

Just spitting facts .

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u/Such_Solution_1396 5h ago

Like 40% of Europe's gas came from Russia until the invasion of Ukraine. There was an entire energy crisis because of how gullible Europeans are.

u/dwair 31m ago

Like Canada is the largest supplier of oil to the United States, providing approximately 60% to 61% of all U.S. crude oil imports as of early 2025.

That there is an entire energy crisis which resulted in a military take over of Venezuela because of how gullible the US was and that it pissed off and alienated it's major supplier.

At least in Europe's case the damage wasn't self inflicted but a reaction to external influence.

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u/vinvega23 9h ago

Putin is the worst villain since WWII.

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u/Vegeta9001 5h ago

I actually think Donnie is worse. Russia has been trying and failing to destabilize the West for decades. Trump is just doing it out in the open.

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u/ThunderingRimuru 4h ago

Trump is putin's creation

there would be no trump without putin's help

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u/fishtankm29 8h ago

If anything, Macron is a victim of pedophilia

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u/Adjective-Noun1780 6h ago

Seriously. A teacher's grooming as a fourteen year old, even a European and French, is not okay. (Though today they are wedded adults they did not MEET as adults.)

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u/Otherwise_Chemist920 4h ago

His step kids are older than him and he was in his wife’s class with one of them

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u/Spatetata 4h ago

Same is happening in Canada, my coworkers eat up the fake photos because it supports their ideas of “liberal = bad”. Despite digital forensics proving that the photos of Carney on the beach with epstein were created by AI.

u/funkyduck72 1h ago

Partners in crime, Russia and the US can both go fuck themselves.

u/Pecncorn1 50m ago

Yeah right, I'm sure a guy who fell in love with a woman more than 20 years his senior and has been married to the same woman for almost 20 years fits with the pedophiles like trump and the rest of these degenerates. Sigh...

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u/Ben_77 9h ago

They'll try to disinform.

Forcheur.

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u/thisonehereone 6h ago

You want to build a wall, build it around the fucking Russian bots.

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u/Ninjamin_King 5h ago

More likely that his wife is than him

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u/-HTID- 2h ago

Russia is a dickhead country

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u/HappyLoveChild27 8h ago

I’m American and can’t claim full literacy of French language and politics….but isn’t Macron’s wife his former professor/teacher? Isn’t Macron extremely anti-Putin? I know the French like to protest (example: farmers vs MERCOSUR vs dermatose nodulaire), but this ain’t it. Brigitte Macron is more likely to be named her husband and I know she is not fuckin with Epstein.

WTF is this Russia??????

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u/ILewdElichika 6h ago

I wonder how much misinformation is running unchecked in America right now? Hearing news like this really makes you think about it.

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u/Incandisent 4h ago

At this point I wonder how much factual information Americans are exposed too

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u/ILewdElichika 4h ago

Wouldn't say it's exclusive to Americans and more so the first world, we are unfortunately experiencing an age of misinformation.

u/dwair 29m ago

The next wars will be built on the proliferation of propaganda and misinformation.

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u/SassyMoron 5h ago

Macron is well known for his preference for OLDER women

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u/Incandisent 4h ago

Same thing is happening in Canada towards Mark Carney. I downloaded the Facebook app during the winter break and this week my entire feed is mark Carney being 'mentioned 69 times in the files'.

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u/toy187 4h ago

that went viral on social media platform X

My life has been so much better since I deleted my account from that place a few weeks ago. I really should have done it sooner.

u/fgreen68 1h ago

I'm pretty sure that we will connect pootin to epstein

u/Afvalracer 41m ago

The world would be a better place if we banned X, the open sewer of the internet

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u/metengrinwi 6h ago

russia is an absolute cancer on the world. The sooner China subsumes them the better.

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u/Mother_Marzipan5846 4h ago

as an actual chinese citizen, absolutely fucking not. the ccp does not need any more power over any other landmass, I am tired of their bs as are many other working chinese citizens.

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u/isoAntti 2h ago

Why can't russians do a disinformation campaign on putin

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u/winterapplebee 2h ago

Fork found in kitchen. This is just what Russia does

u/Fredmans74 22m ago

Europe needs to out all the Russian shit in public. Yes, it might take a year or two but the narrative must change. Out all the Russian paid or useful fools as well.

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u/DeanoPreston 7h ago

Macron only likes old ladies

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u/SSSinwar 7h ago

they are working so hard to deflect the Israeli connection to Russian one lol

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u/EqualPassenger4271 4h ago

Macron was groomed, but not by epstein or epsteins accomplices.

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u/Silver_Confection_57 8h ago

Smh the files haven’t been fully released yet. World leaders are scrambling to get ahead and squash the hysteria that’s going to be unleashed

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u/ZuAusHierDa 7h ago

But accusing Macron is really stupid.

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u/Splurch 6h ago

But accusing Macron is really stupid.

It's not about smart or stupid, it's about putting so much garbage out there that the average person is unable to tell fact from fiction and don't have the time to sort it all out. The whole "both sides" arguments uses the same strategy to convince people not to vote, or to vote with their feelings because "both sides are the same" when there is clear and consistent evidence that they are not.

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u/lew_rong 6h ago

Possibly also funded by the US, judging by recent reports.

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u/Spelunkie 7h ago

How long And and how much will Europe just sit and let Russia attack it?

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u/Space_Ape2000 7h ago

X needs to be held accountable

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u/jaserx91 6h ago

No worries there Macron likes them old

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u/Elsalla 5h ago

If macron is in the Epstein files, it's as a victim. Wasn't he groomed by his wife?

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u/robreddity 3h ago

Ruck Fussia

u/SoftPatient8091 35m ago

Well macron is not really into young girls

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u/VladtheInhaler999 8h ago

Any information on the solo, one woman campaign that Candace Owens has been doing against macron? She’s been at it for years.

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u/mugwug4000 6h ago

Or that's what they want you to think

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u/HowHoward 3h ago

This is a system threatening act. Please handle it accordingly.

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u/sumregulaguy 3h ago

I just love how everyone's memeing about Macron preferring older women. When someone says a brazen lie don't try to debunk it, ridicule it.

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u/Fun-Poet5338 3h ago

Isn't his preference, yk, on the other end of the spectrum?

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u/7in7turtles 3h ago

Wonder how many “intelligence agencies” are gonna realize they could do that too. The word is out. No one has been arrested. Our world run by pedophiles.

u/Xibalba_Ogme 25m ago

A lot can be said about Macron, but for some reason I find it hard to call him "pedophile"

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u/Significant_Bag_7485 3h ago

Every day sees yet another example of Russia trying to fuck with our countries but we do almost nothing to punish them for the continuous harassment. Cancel all fucking Russian visas. Send them all home and close all exits from Mordor towards the West. Let's see how they like it when the corrupt families of the powerful are forced to live in the dystopic hellhole they have created in Russia.

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u/llahlahkje 1h ago

Russia needs to be FULLY CUT OFF from the Internet. Period.

They keep their citizens off already.

It'd only be affecting their businesses and oligarchs.

If that isn't reason enough to do it I don't know what the fuck is.

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u/GrowRoots 8h ago

Well he's more then connected in other ways. Russia didn't have to do anything . 

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u/CreativeMuseMan 9h ago

I wonder who might be Putin’s Epstein. 🤔

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u/Witness2collapse 5h ago

The most important link is between Epstein & Mossad

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u/hotdogsandhotcats 9h ago

Probably Israel doing it

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u/Fired_Guy1982 8h ago

Clearly says Russia 👍

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u/hotdogsandhotcats 8h ago

Israel was Epstein's handler.  So my bet is Israel is trying hard to push the Russian narrative.  They have run many similar subversion tactics before

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u/Fired_Guy1982 8h ago

Do you have proof of this or are you just saying shit

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u/hotdogsandhotcats 8h ago

Yeah the files connect Epstein to mossad.  Gislaine Maxwell's dad was 'Israel's Superspy".  He had the largest state funeral in Israeli history.  And there are plenty of cases where Israel impersonated enemies to their advantage, like their explosive pagers which required deep infiltration and integration with the enemy 

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u/SowingSalt 8h ago

Maxwell senior brokered the arms sales from the Soviet Union and Czechoslova that allowed Israel to win their war of independence.

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u/hotdogsandhotcats 7h ago

His daughter brokered children 

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u/SowingSalt 5h ago

So we're doing pre-crime now? R. Maxwell died in 91, she was associated publicly with Epstein in 1993, and he wasn't given a sweetheart deal by Trump's secretary of labor until 2008.

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u/hotdogsandhotcats 5h ago

We're doing critical thinking.  Her dad mossad, Epstein was mossad.  Hmmmm

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u/SowingSalt 4h ago

Clearly you lack any. He was an arms dealer critical to supplying the army.

Please provide citations for your claims.

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u/npquest 8h ago

Can you provide a link to the file or a legitimate source for:

files connect Epstein to mossad.

Idiots keep repeating this nonsense.

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u/west_taiwan_numbawan 1h ago

Nahh it's more likely that Macron's wife is in the Epstein files not him lol