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France: Protesters rally outside CNews TV over alleged Kremlin influence

France witnessed renewed debate over foreign influence in the media on 3 June as dozens of protesters gathered outside CNews headquarters in Paris to denounce Ksenia Fedorova, the former head of RT France.

Euronews

MEPs urge EU sanctions on former RT France head Xenia Fedorova

Speaking to France Inter in May, French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot said: "Ms Fedorova is a fully fledged propagandist who relays the Kremlin’s disinformation".

Euronews

Former RT France chief Xenia Fedorova fuels concerns over pro-Kremlin influence in French media

French officials and analysts are raising the alarm after former RT France chief Xenia Fedorova began appearing regularly on major conservative media outlets in the country. They warn that Kremlin-aligned narratives are gaining visibility ahead of crucial elections, testing the limits of free speech in France.

France 24

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France’s top film producer says it will blacklist figures who petitioned against rightwing billionaire

Canal+ head says he will not work with hundreds of actors and directors who signed protest against Vincent Bolloré’s political sway

The Guardian - UK

French film industry at risk from the far right, say actors and directors

Juliette Binoche joins 600 leading figures to warn against a ‘fascist takeover of the collective imagination’

The Guardian - UK

French right-wing broadcaster shares fake magazine cover of French National Assembly president

Political commentators mocked Yaël Braun-Pivet, president of France’s National Assembly, for featuring on the cover of tabloid magazine "Closer" on 4 May, except that the image was made by AI.

Euronews

Fighting racism 'must be at heart of presidential debate', French mayor tells RFI

France needs to take concrete action to tackle growing racism before the 2027 presidential election, the newly installed mayor of Saint-Denis Bally Bagayoko tells RFI, after facing racist abuse in the weeks following his election in mid-March.

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Crisis at Grasset: Bolloré strikes back as 308 authors call for a 'conscience clause' in publishing

French billionaire Vincent Bolloré says Grasset "will go on" and has dismissed the "uproar of a small caste" after the mass exodus of authors from the famous publishing house on the rue des Saints-Pères in Paris.

Euronews

More than 100 writers quit French publisher in protest against rightwing owner Vincent Bolloré

Tycoon’s media empire accused of pushing far-right ideas, as writers say: ‘We refuse to be hostages in ideological war’

The Guardian - UK

A new generation of politicians of colour is emerging in France. The backlash speaks volumes

Local elections have led to a surge of racism in a country that still struggles to see itself as anything other than white, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo

The Guardian - UK

Thousands rally against racism in Paris suburb to defend mayor

Several thousand people marched through the streets of Paris' largest suburb on Saturday to denounce racism after the town's newly elected black mayor was subject to disparaging comments on social media and national television shows.

Radio France Internationale

‘Racist ideology lodges itself amid austerity politics’: newly elected French mayor on tackling far right

Bally Bagayoko, who was targeted by racist abuse after winning Saint-Denis mayorship, vows to tackle inequality to stem deepening divisions

The Guardian - UK

How effective is France’s fight against racial discrimination?

Recent comments on a television programme comparing a newly elected black mayor to a monkey and a tribal chief have reignited the debate over what critics call France's failure to tackle mounting racism in the country.

Radio France Internationale

New Saint-Denis mayor sues TV channel CNews over racist comments

Bally Bagayoko, the first mayor from the hard-left France Unbowed party to win a major French city, has filed a lawsuit against television channel CNews for airing racist comments about him.

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The Guardian - UK

Can Europe’s public service media survive attacks by the far right?

From Italy to France, Germany to Hungary, nationalist governments and politicians are targeting media with the same playbook

Tom’s Hardware

Russia cracks down on 'illegal' cryptomining with prison terms up to five years — Kremlin will begin prosecuting in 2027

The Russian government plans to penalize 'illegal' mining of cryptocurrency to prison terms of up to five years.

Radio France Internationale

Macron denies plans for 'ministry of truth' amid far-right outcry

President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday 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 press and expression.

The Guardian - UK

‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners

Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code

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Tom’s Hardware

Russia's Baikal has produced 85,000 of its CPUs since 2012, aims for more

Russia's Baikal Electronics has produced and sold 85,000 processors since its founding, but due to post-2022 sanctions and blocked shipments from Taiwan, it now aims to restart production with new chips like Baikal-L and Baikal-S2 at SMIC.

International Business Times

New Attacks Target France Prison Guard Cars, Home

Assailants targeted cars and a building lobby linked to prison staff in France overnight, the authorities said Wednesday, the latest in a series of coordinated attacks that have put the government on edge.

International Business Times

French Right-wing Media's Russia Tilt Irks Elysee

French Sunday newspaper readers woke up this past weekend to starkly different visions of their country's relationship with Russia.

International Business Times

France's Richest Man Takes Control Of Paris Match Magazine

Paris Match, a glossy French weekly known for its celebrity exclusives on Tuesday became part of the media empire of France's richest man Bernard Arnault, after a stint under right-wing tycoon Vincent Bollore's ownership.

Newslaundry

Reporters Without Borders accuses French billionaire-linked firm of ‘vast campaign to discredit’ it

Paris-based media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders has alleged that a PR firm linked to conservative French businessman Vincent Bolloré is leading a “vast disinformation campaign” to “discredit” it.

The Guardian - UK

Marine Le Pen says National Rally have ‘serious chance’ for absolute majority despite polls – as it happened

Polling has shown that the most likely scenario on Sunday is that National Rally will not win an absolute majority of seats

France 24

How Bolloré, the ‘French Murdoch’, carried Le Pen’s far right to the brink of power

French tycoon Vincent Bolloré has put his sprawling media empire at the service of the country’s nationalist right, precipitating a rightward shift in French politics. Pulling strings from behind the scenes in the manner of Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire corporate raider has orchestrated an alliance of bitter right-wing rivals in…

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