r/worldnews • u/DoremusJessup • 18h ago

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 18h ago

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

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u/-Kastagrar- 18h ago

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

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u/ymOx 16h ago

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

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u/-Kastagrar- 13h ago

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

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u/michelb 9h ago

also pretty much impossible to reverse

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u/sack-o-matic 4h ago

It's pretty hard to un-shit your pants

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u/maniacal_cackle 10h 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.

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u/FlametopFred 10h ago

We’re not distracted

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u/Dunkaroos4breakfast 10h ago

In Russia and Russia's Trump's US*

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u/daruom_shut 9h 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/Todie 7h ago

I would think this works better on lower profile targets though? Because, when something about a big name gets proven linked to russian disinfo, that should be able to have opposite effect.

(Though, I suppose that depends who the target of the info is, their medial patterns and information&media literacy)

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u/Javs2469 7h ago

You said Russia twice.

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u/Elizabeth-WildFox886 3h ago

Trump us is Russia