PoliticsNo, the French army did not deploy tanks against protesting students

France’s student protests have prompted a wave of misleading online content. A viral TikTok falsely claimed the army sent an armoured vehicle against protesters; it was returning to a nearby base. Other posts recirculated 2023 retirement-protest footage as current, and an AI-generated image was falsely presented as showing an officer under attack. Vedika Bahl examines how such material fuels misinformation.

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