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# The conspiracy content machine
- URL: https://www.europeans.today/2025/05/26/the-conspiracy-content-machine/
- Published: 2025-05-26T00:05:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-29T22:21:17.000Z
- Description: President Macron has dismissed viral claims that his wife slapped him as a joke, slamming far-right and Russian-led disinformation tactics for twisting playful moments into smear campaigns. | Today’s Political Cartoon.
- Author: TODAY's Cartoons
- Tags: Today's Cartoon, TODAY+

Far-right influencers and Russian state media have circulated a video suggesting Brigitte Macron slapped President Emmanuel Macron as they disembarked in Vietnam. 

The Élysée dismissed it as a playful moment, but conspiracy theorists amplified it across platforms like Telegram and TikTok. Macron condemned the smear campaign, linking it to extremist disinformation tactics.

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### **GOING FURTHER**

- ###### [Emmanuel Macron says video of wife pushing him shows them ‘joking around’](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/26/macron-says-video-of-wife-brigitte-pushing-him-in-face-does-not-show-them-quarrelling?ref=europeans.today) | THE GUARDIAN
- ###### [Push in the face by wife was joke not domestic dispute, says Macron](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c201e8g0yg3o?ref=europeans.today) | BBC NEWS
- ###### [Macron says he and wife were ‘horsing around’ in apparent fight caught on camera](https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250526-emmanuel-brigitte-macron-wife-push-shove-play-joke-plane-tour-vietnam-horsing-around?ref=europeans.today) | FRANCE 24

  
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