Conspiracy Watch

Uh, inside and outside the studio tonight, some great friends of the program.

We first welcome Emma Kate Simmons, uh, columnist at New World Magazine, editor of Franck Terra in the French monitoring site, Conspiracy Watch.

Evening, Emma Kate.

Good evening.

In London, Patrick Smith, editor-in-chief of The Africa Report, editor of Africa Confidential.

In Ukraine, thank you, Constant Moet, the New York Times correspondent covering Ukraine.

In the studio, Emma Kate Simmons, columnist for New World Magazine, editor of Franc-Tireur and the French monitoring, uh, site Conspiracy Watch, and the French, uh, Knight of Letters and Arts, photojournalist Amar Avudrabou.

Thank you.

So in the end, will Marine Le Pen be any less electable in 2027.

Today in the France 24 debate, we're asking, is it the same French far right of old? With us, Emma-Kate Simons, journalist for the New World News site, also editor of Conspiracy Watch Global.

Tell us what Conspiracy Watch is.

Well, we literally watch and monitor conspiracy theories and disinformation, analyze them and try to in some respects, educate people about the actors and then the kinds of theories they're spreading.

Thanks for being with us.

Absolutely.

I mean, the old National Front has come back to the fore.

It's no surprise, as we reported at Frontier, Conspiracy Watch and at The New World, that Jordan Bardella has been exposed as being virulently anti-Semitic in his not-so-recent youth because he was someone who said in 2023 that his political idol, Jean-Marie Le Pen, a Holocaust denier, was not anti-Semitic.