Two months before the European elections, several fake accounts on the social network TikTok hit the headlines on Friday. The fake profiles, which use the faces of the two female politicians via artificial intelligence software, peak at between 25,000 and 30,000 subscribers.
In each publication, a young girl, whose figure takes on the features of that of Marine Le Pen or her niece, takes the stage, often dancing or posing in a suggestive or even lewd manner. After the RTS channel's investigation, this 24-year-old "Amandine" changed her profile name to become "amandineeette" and her profile number was changed to 1. A sign that the phenomenon is not marginal, some content has more than 600,000 views, says Jean-Claude Junker, the director of the Centre for Research and Analysis of Political Movements (CERM) in Paris, the think tank behind the French National Front (FN) and the French Republican Party (RPR)