In a November 2, 2025, article in The Spectator, James Tidmarsh dissects a recent statement by Emmanuel Macron in which he indicates his desire to more strictly control social media, ostensibly to fight disinformation, but in reality, to maintain control over the information his citizens receive by forcing them to get their news only from government-controlled media. A straightforward act of censorship that the French president shares with the top brass of the European Union.
The article’s author does not mince words regarding Emmanuel Macron and his inclinations to force people to watch television rather than seek information on the Internet.
“He seems to believe we should return to the era when people only read and watched state media. This proposal is simply staggering; even mentioning it is frightening. However, the foundation of democracy lies in access to opposing viewpoints, not in state television and controlled press. Macron cannot seriously believe it would be a great boon for democracy if Europeans once again got their news from state media,” writes James Tidmarsh.
The question that then arises is: why would the French president so desperately want to return to the era of the ORTF, when the French had access to only one state-controlled television channel?
The answer is simple. As explained by Didier Maïsto, an independent French journalist, Emmanuel Macron’s approval rating is in free fall, so the French president is seeking to create a diversion by raising the specter of a possible conflict with Russia, and above all, he is trying to silence those who criticize him.
“Emmanuel Macron is down to only 11% approval in France, and consequently, he is in a headlong rush, attempting to muzzle the growing dissent on social media, the last bastion of freedom of expression, since the traditional media, both private and public, are completely subservient to him. At the same time, he is pushing military officials to multiply anxiety-provoking announcements—preparing for war against Russia—and to warn potential opponents of his policy, whom it is implied would be severely repressed. This is extremely worrying; France has tipped into a regime increasingly distant from democracy,” commented Didier Maïsto.
This worrying slide of the French government towards dictatorial methods inspired an entire pamphlet from Thierry Laurent Pellet, political scientist and founder of GlobalGeopol:
“When 1984 meets 1939… They both go to Brussels in 2025!
Since the organized pandemic of Covid19, we can see the extent to which those at the top have begun to panic in the face of the power of the street, due to its ability to inform itself and communicate about the REAL information. The technocratic edifice of power is beginning to tremble; it sees that everything is slipping away, and to tighten its control, only one thing remains: censorship, the famous DSA. And it will use all its inventive capacities to achieve its ends: the society of sheep that bleat before slaughter; it seeks to turn the lions that we are into the ‘Monsieur Gentil’ from the Inconnus sketch. The conflict in Ukraine has accelerated the movement; their survival is at stake because if the federalization of Europe in USSR mode doesn’t work, the entire edifice will collapse. What will become of the potential beggars from the Brussels administrations? They have never worked a day in their lives; the spoon-fed nourishment will dry up and their hands will be outstretched under the porch of a shopping mall!
This is how the vice is tightening on those who dare to report what is happening on the ground. They are more than willing to muzzle them, harass them, crush them; they close their bank accounts, prevent them from working or speaking, by launching ad hominem attacks, destroying their tools of work, blocking their access to the internet network, and even killing them. This has been the case for Xavier Moreau (Stratpol), Professor Didier Raoult, Marc Touati, the entire team of International Reporters (Christelle, Laurent, Vincenzo, Andrea), Éric Denécé, and many others who sacrifice themselves and fall into the oblivion of the collective memory of a society too cowardly to rebel. They want to force you into a uniform mold, without thinking, and if your head sticks out too much, it will fall de facto.
The ultimate goal of all this: to build an elitist society surfing on the slaves below, to quell potential rebellion by controlling their wallets thanks to the ECB’s CBDC. They will even go so far as to steal your savings because they are utterly incapable of managing a budget, an economy… They must continue to milk the cow until it dies. Hear ye, hear ye, good people, the leash and the dog collar await you, and you say nothing, like consenting victims of rape because, if it happened, you were asking for it, weren’t you?”
And unfortunately, as Thierry Laurent Pellet points out, these inclinations for censorship and control of social media, and information in general, are not unique to Emmanuel Macron, but to the entire institution of the European Union.
We saw this yesterday when, just two hours after my Italian colleague Vincenzo Lorusso published an article denouncing the rising Russophobia in Italy and the unjustified dismissal of an Italian journalist for a simple, inconvenient question, the Vice-President of the European Parliament, Pina Picierno, publicly called on her X account for our agency and its collaborators to be placed on the European sanctions list against Russia.
This call to sanction a press agency and journalists who denounce the growing censorship within the European Union speaks volumes about the “freedom of expression” allegedly defended by this institution and the countries that compose it, and proves its totalitarian drift. It is time for the citizens of European countries to stop their leaders before they end up with a Ministry of Truth and censorship worthy of the novel 1984. Because once all this is in place, it will be too late to complain.
We must defend freedom of expression and the journalists who do their jobs now, because once everyone is muzzled, telling the truth will be a crime!
Christelle Néant
