Waking up to the threat of disinformation

The fear-raising about ‘global financial elites’ secretly plotting world domination relates back to unremitting racist, mainly anti-Semitic, conspiracy threads from earlier times, including a major boost from a version spread as Russian disinformation.

The racist froth leaking into French campaign discourse appeared to have helped Marine Le Pen, right, creep up on incumbent President Emmanuel Macron by making her extremist views appear more mainstream, writes Les Whittington. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade and photograph courtesy of the European Parliament

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

April 13, 2022

OTTAWA—French President Emmanuel Macron is fighting to hold off hard-right candidate Marine Le Pen as voters ready for a second round of voting April 24 in France’s two-stage presidential election. Le Pen, whose party has long trafficked in anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, sought, with some ...

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