“The amount of energy necessary to refute nonsense is an order of magnitude greater than that necessary to produce them.” This principle of Internetknown as Brandolini’s law, remarks to deny a BULO It is much more difficult than spreading it.
Even so, France He has tried. The Elysee Palace was forced this weekend to deny a campaign of disinformation according to which the Galo President, Emmanuel Macronconsumed cocaine next to the chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merzand the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmeron a train in the direction of Kiev. Actually, it was a handkerchief.
Last Friday, the three leaders headed to the capital of Ukrainewhere they met with the president Volodímir Zelenski And the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk. The meeting served to revalidate European support for the Ukrainian cause and to threaten Russia With new economic sanctions.
However, the most viral were the videos and images – some manipulated – in which it was shown that on the table of the car in which they were traveling there was something white, a small object that Macron quickly hid when the photographers approached. Merz also hid another object. For dozens of accounts in X, the social network previously known as Twitterit was undoubtedly cocaine. The message, false, spread like a virus.
“Alert to manipulation”
The virality From the bully it was such that Paris and Berlin went out to deny it on the same platform in which it had popularized. “Are False news The enemies of France are spreading them, both abroad and in the country. We must remain alert to the handling“The Elysium warned on Sunday.” Many parties are trying to influence public opinion through campaigns of disinformation. The enemies of our democracy deliberately try to weaken European unity and social cohesion, “added the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the conservative party that presides over Merz.
The bully was replicated in France by the ultra -rightist Florian Philippotformer right hand of Marine Le Pen and president of the Los Patriots party.
Outside the country it was also amplified by Russian authorities as María Zajárovaspokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, which he said on his Telegram channel: “After pushing Zelenski to another infernal plan to derail an agreement and prolong the spill of blood in Europe, it is like a joke: a Frenchman, an English and a German rose to a train and began to make a line.”
From the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, in 2022, the Kremlin He has repeatedly accused Zelenski of being a “drug addict.” Favorable accounts to Moscow They have replicated all kinds of imaging and videos manipulated to try to turn that bulle into a state of opinion contrary to Ukraine.
