French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during a meeting with selected readers of the Ebra group, a French regional daily newspaper group operating in eastern France, in Mirecourt, on November 28, 2025. SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP
President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, December 2, denied having any plan for a "ministry of truth" in France after right-wing and far-right politicians and media charged that his drive against disinformation risked curtailing freedom of the press and expression.
Macron has in the last weeks intensified warnings on the risks of disinformation, on Friday calling for changes to French legislation that would allow "false information" online to be urgently blocked.
He has also called for "professional certification" of outlets to distinguish sites and networks that provide reliable information according to ethical rules from others that do not. But "it is not the state that should verify," otherwise "it becomes a dictatorship," he said.
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