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Monday April 10, on Twitter, a user posted a montage comparing two quotes attributed to Sandrine Rousseau. In the first, we see a tweet from the green MP wishing “a good month of Ramadan” to her fellow citizens. The second is an image with these comments on the Easter holidays: “These archaic traditions are an insult to our common culture. »
Where does the intox come from?
Monday, April 10, on Twitter, a user posted a montage comparing two quotes attributed to Sandrine Rousseau. In the first, we see a tweet from the green MP wishing “a good month of Ramadan” to her fellow citizens. The second seems to come from a statement on LCP. An image shows Sandrine Rousseau on a TV set. Above, we read these comments on the Easter holidays: “These archaic traditions are an insult to our common culture. »
Ironically, the Internet user behind this comparison, visibly wishes to point the finger at a lack of consistency on the part of MP NUPES, and salutes the “triple back somersault of the inevitable Sandrine Rousseau”. This viral tweet has been viewed more than 230,000 times. And was shared in the first degree by several Internet users. Among which political opponents… but also journalists.
Why is this wrong?
If the first quote about Ramadan is real, the second, about Easter, is from a parody account. Entitled “Northern Rats News”it bears the mention “parody”, written in small, in its profile.
This is far from the first time that false quotes have been attributed to the eco-feminist. A Twitter account has even made it a specialty: baptized “Sardine Ruisseau”, he has nearly 130,000 subscribers. Last August, the politician denounced the “cyberharassment” at work behind these parodies. She then explained on Quotidien: “It’s serious that we’re here after the episodes, for example, of Ségolène Royal in the presidential election, who herself had been extremely mocked and about whom we said to ourselves just after ‘never again will we does it again’. »
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