The U.S. and France, like many Western countries, are fighting disinformation campaigns from foreign countries, mainly Russia, but their policy approach to combat the problem are markedly different – the U.S. focuses on voluntary efforts to help people distinguish correct information from disinformation, while France has instituted new regulations on the news media.
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Officials say that Russia is seeking to engage in another disinformation campaign in 2020. This brings up the question, what does a disinformation campaign look like?
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As U.S. citizens living abroad get ready to vote in the Global Primaries, Americans stationed in France took part in the rekindling of the eternal flame in Paris earlier this month.
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The lack of recognized leaders in France’s yellow vest movement that has become an uprising against economic inequality offers two problems for French President Emmanuel Macron: there is no obvious negotiating partner and no list of agreed upon demands.
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Over a decade after the genocide in Darfur began, millions of refugees are still waiting for their lives to begin again. Abdulmaged Daoud, who was 11 at the start of the genocide, is one such refugee.
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This photo essay features images of students from refugees and their makeshift camps across Paris and the students of Pierre Claver School also located in Paris.
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France’s far-right party, the Front National, may have been decisively defeated at the polls last May, but the anti-immigrant policies it supports are still attracting voters across Western Europe.
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France’s President Emmanuel Macron was once seen as a positive force for France’s immigrant population, but his most recent immigration policies are being criticized for contradicting this image.
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After a crushing electoral defeat in 2017, France’s far-right Front National thinks it can appeal to voters under 40 using both immigration and economic issues to make a political rebound.
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