"The bigger it is, the more it goes down": the Élysée Palace denies that extras were paid to "cheer" Macron on July 14
The Élysée Palace denies recruiting extras for the July 14 parade. A false report widely shared on social media has prompted an official response from the Presidential Palace.
By Aubin Laratte"The bigger it is, the more it goes down." The Élysée Palace logically denied, this Sunday, in a message posted on X, the recruitment of "500 extras" "recruited to cheer" Emmanuel Macron during the July 14 parade , as mentioned in a publication posted the day before on X.
In a post posted Saturday by "Jacques Renardiere" on X, it was "revealed" that "500 extras were allegedly recruited to cheer Macron for a salary of 98 euros." The proof? A post allegedly posted in a Facebook group in which a production company announced that it was looking for paid extras "to fill and guarantee a cheering crowd for the president's descent" on July 14, along the Champs-Élysées.
An internet user had already "debunked" this "information" on Saturday. "We are therefore faced with a dubious recruitment advertisement, issued in the name of a non-existent company, published by a suspicious profile and relayed by equally dubious accounts," summarized KnwldgMedia, a fact-checking specialist, on X.
With the video racking up almost a million views, the Élysée Palace decided this Sunday to deny this information through official channels—at the risk of putting it under the spotlight. "The bigger it is, the more it gets through," the Palace denounced, accompanying the post with a screenshot of the original publication, accompanied by a "Fake."
This is not the first time that the French presidency has officially denied false information, which is increasingly common on social media . In May, for example, the Élysée Palace made it clear that what some saw as a bag of cocaine was actually a "handkerchief for blowing one's nose."
Le Parisien
