One on France Inter and the other on France 2. Each in their column cited tweets wrongly attributed to the left-wing MP repeatedly announcing that she was leaving Elon Musk's social network.
“We get up, we get out!”. Sandrine Rousseau sent a letter to all the deputies of the New Popular Front (NFP) for the “invite to leave X”the social network owned by Elon Musk and previously known as Twitter. An initiative which inspired Sophia Aram this Monday, January 13 for her column on France Inter.
“Stay or go? From your bed, from a bus shelter or from the toilet when the bus is slow to come… Stay or leave, this is the question Internet users are asking about social networks which have become antisocial”begins the comedian before recalling his own setbacks on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. “A troll of Internet users spent her free time inviting me to put sausages in the foundation or to return to the country when others after 2015 took over by urging me to find the path of respect and to enter the ranks of “Muslimism””she lists.
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“In short, more than ever the question arises. Stay or go? Or leave permanently as we say goodbye. Or like Sandrine Rousseau in August 2022, then in November 2022, then in September 2023, then in July 2024 or even last week”continues Sophia Aram, referring to various posts by the MP for the 9th constituency of Paris.
-Rigged montages
However, these messages never existed. The images on which Sophia Aram relied to write her column are nothing but fake montages. In the afternoon, the comedian apologized. : “Erratum: I am informed that this screenshot on which I relied to assert that Sandrine Rousseau had already announced her departure from Twitter is a fake. All my apologies to the listeners and to Sandrine Rousseau”.
Philippe Vandel also fell into the trap
Philippe Vandel fell into the same trap. In his column for “Télématin”, he declaims: “SOn Saturday, she wrote to her NFP colleagues to invite them to leave or stop using the X platform formerly Twitter. She herself warns that she is going to leave. A threat all the more threatening since this summer, it was July 25, Sandrine Rousseau announced this: “Faced with harassment from men, I decided to leave X Twitter permanently. I'm going to start on TikTok, goodbye”. Well, she stayed. But before that, on September 19, 2023, she spoke directly to the boss of Twitter, Elon Musk: “Tell me Elon Musk, are you planning to make us pay? Well it will be without me, goodbye Twitter”. Well, she stayed.”
The journalist has also since made his “Mea maxima culpa”. “These messages were indeed fake. Presented my apologies to Sandrine Rousseau. I also do it with the viewers”he posted. A message reshared by Sandrine Rousseau.
