Fake video claiming ‘coup in France’ goes viral – not even Macron could immediately get it removed

Sometime in the second week of December, an improbable video began making the rounds on French-language social media. France, it claimed, was subject to a coup d’état, and President Emmanuel Macron had possibly been deposed. The video, an AI-generated fake, racked up millions of views and caused alarm with at least one African leader. At first, not even the French president could get Meta to take it down. Antonia Kerrigan tells us more.