False claims that President Emmanuel Macron's wife Brigitte is transgender first emerged online in France in 2021. The story could have fizzled out, but pushed by the far right and conspiracy theorists, it's now reached 4.5 billion people worldwide. Investigative journalist Thomas Huchon says his and other mainstream journalists' failure to address the story when it broke, allowed conspiracists to fill the gap.
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