{"id":1447451,"date":"2022-04-20T10:15:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T14:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1447451"},"modified":"2022-04-20T10:16:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T14:16:02","slug":"fact-check-did-bbc-news-report-that-emmanuel-macron-warned-europe-of-an-influx-of-60-million-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-bbc-news-report-that-emmanuel-macron-warned-europe-of-an-influx-of-60-million-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did BBC News Report That Emmanuel Macron Warned Europe Of An Influx Of 60 Million Refugees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-bbc-news-report-that-emmanuel-macron-warned-europe-of-an-influx-of-60-million-refugees%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1447451&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/RXvz9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid%3D104396688920179%26set%3Da.103039379055910&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1650379694523000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1pmvbfmjUXqNTmj-4hwa0-\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims BBC News reported French President Emmanuel Macron warned Europe of an influx of 60 million refugees in 20 years due to an economic collapse in Africa.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The tweet is digitally fabricated. A BBC spokesperson confirmed the outlet did not send such a tweet.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Macron is running for a second term against far-right French politician Marine Le Pen, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/04\/16\/europe\/macron-le-pen-france-election-runoff-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>. Both advanced to the second round after being the top-two vote-getters in the first round of France\u2019s election, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>The image, an alleged screenshot of a BBC News tweet, claims Macron said that Europe should be \u201cready to accept up to 60 million refugees.\u201d The purported screen grab features a photo of Macron and includes a BBC News watermark in the corner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrance\u2019s President Macron tells re-election audience, \u2018Europe needs to be prepared to take up to 60 million refugees, over the next 20 years, from Africa and the Middle East,&#8217;\u201d reads part of the alleged tweet. It goes on to warn of an impending economic collapse in Africa due to sanctions placed on the Russian economy by world powers.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet is digitally fabricated.\u00a0No such tweet appears on BBC News\u2019 verified <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCWorld\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter account<\/a> nor do any\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220412014233\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCWorld\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archived<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220411231357\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCWorld\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">screenshots<\/a> of the BBC News Twitter account contain any tweet similar to the one depicted in the Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>The formatting of the tweet is also incorrect. The tweet exceeds Twitter\u2019s 240-character limit. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/04\/13\/fact-check-bbc-news-report-kramatorsk-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did BBC News Report That Ukraine Was Responsible For The Kramatorsk Train Station Attack?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No such article covering Macron\u2019s purported statement appears on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/search?q=Macron+Refugees&#038;page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a> website, though the photo used in the fake tweet does appear in an April 11 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/w172yfbwz3p3frl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video thumbnail<\/a> covering the run-off election in France.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t a BBC article and we encourage audiences to visit the BBC News website if they\u2019re unsure if a story is real,\u201d a spokesperson from the outlet told Check Your Fact via email.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time BBC News has been the target of misinformation related to the conflict in Ukraine. Check Your Fact recently <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/04\/13\/fact-check-bbc-news-report-kramatorsk-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> a video, purportedly attributed to BBC News, that blamed Ukraine for the Kramatorsk train station attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image\u00a0shared on Facebook claims BBC News reported French President Emmanuel Macron warned Europe of an influx of 60 million refugees in 20 years due to an economic collapse in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":1447469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}