Vídeo: Notícias falsas inundam o Reino Unido e a França antes das eleições

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fake news is buffeting the UK and France ahead of their respective elections both are gearing up for decisive votes that look set to radically shake up the political direction of each country and Europe as a whole but as usual there’s plenty of disinformation making the rounds particularly targeting individual politicians don’t fall for these false claims and others like [Music] them this post on X is at the UK’s former home secretary Suella braan used £25,000 in expenses to pay for her parents electricity bills rather than her own it’s apparently based on an investigation by British newspaper The Daily Mirror last year it found that the conservative politician claimed nearly £25,000 in household bills for a London house in 5 years despite staying rentree in her parents’ home this is within MP expenses rules but bravman was accused of exploiting the system at the time either way the mirror report makes no mention of bravman using her EMP expenses to pay her parents’ bills elsewhere an edited image shows sakir starma leader of the labor party sitting beside predatory sex offender Jimmy savl the image isn’t a new one but is doing the rounds again in the runup to the election labor Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves published the original unaltered photo on X in December 2022 it shows starma sitting next to former prime minister Gordon Brown not savil whose face has been edited onto Brown’s Body across the channel posts such as this one suggest that French president Emanuel macron called the legislative election so he can run for office a third time it claims that he’ll be able to resign and run again if the vote doesn’t go his way because his second mandate would be incomplete this is wrong France’s Constitution clearly states that the president is elected for 5 years and can hold no more than two consecutive mandates then there’s this post that says that Manuel Boma MP for the leftwing lafon anumi party is wearing a red triangle pin in support of Hamas but this isn’t right either LEF anumi says on its news platform that the badge is an anti-fascist symbol it hearkens back to the red triangles that political prisoners were forced to wear by the Nazis when they were detained in concentration camps France heads to the polls for the second round of its legislative elections on Sunday while the UK general election is on Thursday as the far right appears to be making significant gains in France the UK is set to swing left following 14 years of conservative governments whichever way you vote make sure you’re not being caught out by dubious claims online for more investigations and fact checks take a look at our website euronews.com