French government trolls misinformation on XFINE LINE: Information has become ‘a new battleground,’ a French official said, while a global security expert said official channels adopting trolling tactics carries risksAFP, PARISWhen US Secretary of State Marco Rubio criticized European culture on X this week, a team at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs was swift to hit back online. Their X account in English, called “French Response,” is the latest way France is seeking to defend itself against an ever-growing tide of online disinformation. French President Emmanuel Macron arrives for a special summit of EU leaders in Brussels on Thursday. The French Response account celebrated the headlines. “When the world does your French response for you,” it wrote, just after Trump mocked Macron’s sunglasses.
