France pressed to prove claims of Israeli online influence

France’s Foreign Ministry said Israel-linked social media accounts had promoted “hostile narratives” about riots in France, according to Reuters, prompting demands that Paris substantiate the allegation.The accusation appeared in an internal report by the French Foreign Ministry, the news agency reported on Tuesday.The assessment said that social media accounts linked to Israel and to the U.S. MAGA movement pushed "hostile narratives" around the riots, linking them to radical Islamism and migration.The 10 most-viewed X posts from Israeli officials, government accounts, media outlets and influencers received more than 35 million views from Oct. 16 to 18, the French report said.The Combat Antisemitism (CAM) organization wrote to French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot and Reuters CEO Steve Hasker and Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni asking them to present the evidence, CAM said.“If your analysts identified factual distortions, which claims were false? If they found evidence of coordination, what was that evidence?”…

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