The disinformation campaign gained traction online and was picked up by conspiracy theorists both in France and abroad, ...

Brigitte Macron, the French First Lady, has been the subject of false claims on social media, including allegations about her ...

A Paris court has overturned a defamation conviction against two women, Amandine Roy and Natacha Rey, who claimed in a 2021 ...

The two women had been found guilty of libel by a lower court for spreading false claims about Brigitte Macron's gender.

French First Lady Brigitte Macron has been awarded damages over the viral false claim that she is a transgender man named Jean-Michel.. A Paris court on Thursday ordered two women to pay £6,750 ...

Her birth name, she claimed, was Jean-Michel Trogneux - the boy in the checked shirt in the photograph - before 'he' became a transgender woman and underwent a sex change operation in the early 1980s.

French First Lady Brigitte Macron has received nearly R160 000 in damages after two women falsely claimed she's a transgender man named Jean-Michel Trogneux. A Paris court on Thursday found two women ...

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron. Credit: AP The unfounded rumours say she was born male under the name Jean-Michel Trogneux.

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Amandine Roy and Natacha Rey will have to pay €8,000 in damages to France's first lady and €5,000 to her brother Jean-Michel Trogneux. Le Monde with AFP. Published on September 12, 2024, at 4: ...

Most of the conversation around Brigitte Trogneux, who has been married to France’s President-elect Emmanuel Macron since 2007, has been sexist commentary on her age. Trogneux, 64, is 24 years ...

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