Emmanuel Macron presents his best wishes to the press on Tuesday afternoon, the Élysée announced on Monday, January 10, in the presence in particular of the office of the Presidential Press Association (APP) and other representatives of the profession, the occasion for the Head of State to evoke in particular the fight against fake news.
The president of the APP, Olivier Bost, should discuss the challenges of the journalist profession and its relations with power.
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Three months before the presidential election, the Head of State was also to receive Tuesday morning the report of the Bronner Commission on the fight against disinformation on large digital platforms, which sets out a series of recommendations to prevent their spread.
An initiative that aims to respond, among other things, to the rise in anti-vaccine discourse.
In January 2020, the date of his last wishes to the press, just before the pandemic, the Head of State also said he wanted "a form of regulation" of the media to fight against false information, defending the new Council of Ethics media that he had just installed, highly contested by the profession and immediately boycotted by most of the mainstream media.
