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How disinformation targeting Brigitte Macron spread to the US and UK
Years after false posts began circulating on social media claiming that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman, the French first lady remains the target of fake claims with the transphobic disinformation now being spread in the US and the UK.
Prominent US right-wing commentator Candace Owens vehemently attacked the first lady in a now-deleted YouTube video posted on March 11th, propagating a false claim that first exploded in France just weeks before the 2022 presidential election. Macron is among a group of influential women - including former US first lady Michelle Obama and New Zealand ex-premier Jacinda Ardern - who have fallen victim to a growing trend: disinformation about their gender or sexuality to mock or humiliate them. And it worked, spreading like wildfire after Owens posted her video with two associated hashtags shared tens of thousands of times on X, according to social network analysis tool Visibrain.
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