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Student protests and school blockades in France are entering their third week, with demonstrations over high school conditions also seeing violence between demonstrators and riot police.
But alongside the unrest, a wave of false and misleading videos has been circulating online, shared by far-right figures in the US and UK to promote claims about immigration and social unrest in France.
Videos showing fires, clashes and large crowds have been presented as evidence of an immigration-fuelled "civil war," even when the footage is old or unrelated to the current demonstrations.
In the US, far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has shared lengthy video compilations about the protests, using them to promote an Islamophobic narrative.
Jones has claimed that France is experiencing an “anti-white civil war”, with “dead bodies everywhere”. There is no evidence to support those claims. There has been no deaths reported to dates in the current protests, and the demonstrations are centred on concerns over the state of France’s education system, including large class sizes, teacher shortages and poor school conditions, not immigration.
Jones uses a series of videos to illustrate his claims about supposed immigrant violence. But some of the footage predates the current protests by years. For example, one of his video compilations...
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