Macron says leaders "naively repeat AI-generated content" about France unrest
“When I see leaders who are in the middle of election campaigns, whether in the region or on the other side of the Atlantic — who sometimes naively repeat AI-generated content or spread narratives that certain circles are clearly trying to promote about what happened in France — they’re using our country for their own political campaigns,”
Reported October 21, 2026 by mymotherlode.com. Checked word for word against that report.
Speaking in Qatar on Wednesday at the end of a Gulf tour that included efforts to secure fuel supplies, President Emmanuel Macron addressed outside political reactions to weekend unrest in France. Cost-of-living demonstrations had escalated into rioting and looting in several cities. U.S. President Donald Trump, without substantiation, blamed Muslim migrants and urged Macron to shut France’s borders. Macron said false material about the violence had circulated abroad, including computer-made images and assertions of a migrant or Islamist takeover, which he rejected. Asked whether he meant Trump, he said Trump was among those responsible. Macron criticized politicians competing for votes elsewhere, including across the Atlantic, for repeating such material and drawing on France’s troubles in their own races.
- mymotherlode.com ↗︎21 OCT 2026
- wsls.com ↗︎21 OCT 2026