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AFP Bolsters Fact-Checking for 2027 French Election
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In Short: AFP announced plans to bolster its fact-checking efforts for the 2027 French presidential election, dedicating a specialized team to verify information throughout the campaign period.
The news comes as disinformation continues to grow, with AFP's extensive network spanning the whole of France, including 22 bureaux across mainland France and the French overseas territories.
AFP's global footprint extends to 260 cities, enabling the organization to cover French citizens voting abroad and report on the diplomatic and economic impact of the election results worldwide.
The organization's experienced journalists bring unparalleled knowledge of French politics, reporting from across France and around the world while upholding the highest editorial standards.
The French presidential election is set against a backdrop of growing political unrest, social protests, and economic uncertainty.
The gilets jaunes (yellow vests) movement, which demonstrated against cost-of-living hikes for over a year from 2018, has become one of the longest-lived protest movements in French history.
The French passion for protest is legendary in Europe, with large-scale protests seeming the only way to get heard by French authorities.
The Jacques Delors Centre notes that France is heading into a pivotal election year, with a far-right candidate leading the polls.
Florian Philippot, leader of the French Patriots party and a candidate in France’s presidential election, has called on President Emmanuel Macron to resign amid protests, clashes with police, and unrest across the country.
Marine Le Pen launched her fourth bid to become president of France on Sunday with a plea to 'French patriots' to back her and her far-right National Rally (RN) in spring elections.
The Jacques Delors Centre warns that if the far right prevails, it would need to win a referendum to implement its programme, entailing sweeping changes to the French constitution and a negation of the primacy of EU law.
Calling and winning legislative elections will be necessary for a new president to govern France effectively.
With less than six months to go before the first round of the presidential election, some candidates are offering demagogic or incomplete proposals, while others have none at all.
Background
AFP announced plans to bolster its fact-checking efforts for the 2027 French presidential election, dedicating a team to verify information throughout the campaign period.
A key national pro-life group said it plans to spend $160 million in the 2026 midterm elections and the 2028 presidential election cycles to elect its preferred candidates.
What's confirmed
- The three young women told me large-scale protests seemed the only way to get heard by French authorities.
- The gilets jaunes (yellow vests) demonstrated against cost-of-living hikes for over a year from 2018 - becoming one of the longest-lived protest movements in French history.
- Social unrest, government borrowing costs at eye-watering highs, a deeply divided French parliament and an apparent revolving door of exasperated French prime ministers - six prime ministers over the last five years - all claiming to want to reduce their country's public debt.
- Is France at breaking-point - and what does this all mean for the eurozone currency the French are such a huge part of?
- The French passion for protest is legendary in Europe.
- The result was announced on Saturday, the opening day of the party's two-day congress in Orléans, as the RN seeks to consolidate its position ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
- PARIS — Jordan Bardella, a key ally of French far-right presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen, on Tuesday said allegations that he made antisemitic comments in 2013 marked part of a “total war” against their party ahead of the 2027 polls.
- "The government is trembling and it's right to tremble because when the French people are angry, they never let up," Ryad Rani, the head of the LSU high school student representative body, told journalists in Paris.
- The French president said some leaders were influenced by fake videos generated by artificial intelligence about the unrest President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday criticised world leaders for making “stupid” comments about the rioting on the sidelines of protests in France, in an apparent swipe at US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- “The Russian hybrid threat against Europeans and against France has intensified,” Macron said after meeting French political leaders ahead of next year’s election and before traveling to the U.N. General Assembly next week.
- Florian Philippot, leader of the French Patriots party and a candidate in France’s presidential election, has called on President Emmanuel Macron to resign amid protests, clashes with police and unrest across the country.
- Clean up begins after French riots but police remain Suspect arrested after historic town hall set alight - French media Katya Adler: France divided over who to blame for riots and what to learn from them In pictures: French landmarks damaged and destroyed by violent protesters Katya Adler: France's government under pressure after weekend of widespread violence "We had people claiming that we had been invaded by hordes of migrants and Islamists, which is completely false."
What's still developing
- As disinformation continues to grow, AFP will dedicate a team of fact-checkers throughout the election campaign, in additional to our international network which can be called upon to verify any information originating from abroad.
- We deliver news with speed, without compromising on accuracy.
- He called for a 'break with Macronism' and an end to 'Jean-Luc Mélenchon's dominance over the left,' while insisting the main opponent remained 'the far right.' Published on October 12, 2026, at 11:09 am (Paris), updated on October 14, 2026, at 11:51 am Sandrine Cassini Robin Richardot Although the concept of the nation was born during the French Revolution, the far right has claimed it since the end of the 20th century.
- Spain goes to the polls for a snap election on November 29.
- Although changes to the education system were introduced in the wake of May 1968, the centre-right went onto win a majority in the June parliamentary elections in a wave of support for General Charles de Gaulle, rather than in support of the protesters’ cause.
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- With just months to go before elections to replace President Emmanuel Macron, French authorities had been hoping that the protests would start to ease ahead of half-term holidays to start at the end of the week.
- PARIS: Police and protesters clashed in Paris and other French cities on Saturday on the sidelines of nationwide marches against soaring inflation.