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Back to EpisodesMisleading campaign adverts target French far left in local elections
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Over the weekend, thousands of people in Toulouse – France's fourth-largest city – were exposed to a misleading campaign targeting Francois Piquemal, the far-left France Unbowed party's candidate for mayor, ahead of Sunday's municipal elections. It happened in the middle of France’s electoral silence period, raising suspicions of foreign interference. Emerald Maxwell explains in this edition of Truth or Fake.