At the end of May 2025, the network went around a photograph allegedly taken in one of the French gyms. It shows an advertising poster of self -defense courses “for those who are beaten by a wife” with a portrait of the president of the country. We checked the authenticity of this picture.
In the photo you can see the door to the gym, on which the advertising poster hangs. On it, French President Emmanuel Macron covers the bruise on his face with his palm. The inscription reads: “Does your wife beat you? Sign up for self -defense courses. ” It is alleged that such a poster appeared in one of the French gyms shortly after the incident with the participation of Macron and his wife Brigitte. May 26 became viral video, on which the first lady of France pushes her husband in the face before they exit the plane in Vietnam. After a hype, Macron himself said that it was a joke: he and his wife "fooling around, how often they did."
The photo was distributed by Russian ("RIA Novosti", "Arguments and facts") And foreign media (Lapresse, "Ukrainian National News"), As well as large Telegram channels, among which"Dmitry Nicotin"(343,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Solovyov"(222 000),"Creative with an asterisk"(157 000),"Irena Ponaroshka"(112 000) and"Heaven is"(102 000).
The incident in Vietnam caused a great resonance. Not only journalists, but also officials of different countries, for example, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova, reacted to the video with the participation of the Macron. I suggestedthat it was the Kremlin’s hand. The caricaturists did not deprive embarrassment.
As for the viral photograph, allegedly taken at the entrance to the French gym, its authenticity is doubtful for a number of reasons. Firstly, she did not receive any mass distribution in franco-speaking sources. The greatest coverage (in total about 4000 views) - post User of the social network X with the userneum @xinfolive, which distributes pro -Russian content and has its own page on VKontakte. In English in X the second by the number of views (70,000) tweet Placed the Irish publicist, an employee of the Russian state news agency RT BOOUZ. This can not be compared with almost two -million coverage in the Russian -speaking segment of Telegram. It is noteworthy that large Western media (for example, a British tabloid Daily Mail) If they talked about the picture, then they called it an Internet fake.
Secondly, eloquent chronology of publications in different languages. Tweet @xinfolive - the earliest in French, it was located on May 27 at 13:29 Moscow time. With English -speaking comment before all picture The user @farnkyboy (May 26 at 21:35) shared - his page also almost fully consists of pro -Russian publications, and he often writes comments in Russian. In Russian-language social networks, the photo appeared much earlier-it was the first to place the Telegram channel "Kryminforum🇿 🇴 🇻"May 26 at 15:23 Moscow time. He is previously already Facing In the analysis of “tested” as the primary source of misinformation related to Western politicians.
Note that the scandalous video with Macron began to disperse after 9 in the morning, that is, just a few hours before the first publication of the viral photo from the gym. But the poster during this time had to come up with, draw, print, place on the door and photograph. At the same time, only one frame is distributed with this poster, although he could and was supposed to attract the attention of many visitors. Where exactly this picture was taken, it is impossible to determine-there are no identification signs in the photograph, it can be a gym anywhere in the world.
“Verified” failed to reliably establish exactly how this image was created. Probably, it was (at least partially) generated AI, however, specialized detectors give conflicting results: some revealed traces of the neural network, others did not see anything suspicious in the picture.
Another option is the use of a photo editor, but the images analysis are not allowed to give an unambiguous answer. However, based on the above arguments, the picture was unlikely to be taken in this gym.
Thus, the history of the spread of photography from the French simulator hall suggests that in fact it appeared in the Russian -speaking segment of the network and at least does not correspond to its description. Analysis using digital methods shows that the image could be fully or partially generated using AI.
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