Now that Russian agents have gone to the internet to harness the potential to cause internal strife, it is easy to see. France is not normally this violent. When these issues occur it can be anything from an increase in college tuition or in this case a tax on fossil fuels.
The demonstrations have become incrementally more violent to the point where demonstrators attempted to ride motorcycles to defeat police. They have been trying to assault the French equivalent of the White House. They want to get their hands on President Macron. I am waiting to see government tanks rolling in the streets of Paris as the violence ratchets up.
I wish President Macron and his government well in their allowance of demonstrations while attempting to return Paris and France to a peaceful countryside.
By Claire Berlinski
It's no surprise foreign observers (click here) have a difficult time separating the truth about France’s Gilets Jaunes protests from the tide of online misinformation and deliberate disinformation about them when the same is true for French citizens themselves. Four out of every five tweets I’ve seen myself are misleading or false.
I assume most people are passing on this nonsense unwittingly. But there is a significant contingent doing it on purpose.
In France, militants from both the far right and far left are attempting to harness what started as an authentic protest movement to serve their own ends. Many of the online supporters of the Gilets Jaunes, the Yellow Vests – demonstrators named after the reflective jackets worn as an identifying uniform - are either deliberately lying or genuinely unable to distinguish lies from the truth....
