A little history of 49.3k followers on Elizabeth Bourne’s Instagram account

It all started with a message posted on Twitter. “If this tweet gets 50 likes, I send 27k (ie 27,000, editor’s note) fake subscribers to Elizabeth Bourne so that she has exactly 49.3k subscribers,” a user with the pseudonym @EstChauve sent to her followers this Sunday, March 19. The prime minister’s official Instagram account had about 12,300 followers at the time, it said Western France . At 10,000 subscribers, the calculation was fine (as it was 37k he had to send to get to 49.3). “Typo,” excuses the tweets it quoted Parisian .

Action, reaction… Less than four hours later, Elizabeth Bourne’s Instagram page had 49,300 (49,300) followers, referring to the recent use of Article 49.3 of the Constitution to force pension reforms. “The idea came to me on a whim, I saw that it had less than 49,300 subscribers and knew a site to create fake subscribers,” the “troller” told the media. DNA: . I struggled to get to 50 likes and all of a sudden it took and I had mentions everywhere. Enthusiasm far exceeded what I imagined.

“Disinformation Desire”

In any case, Matignon did not like the initiative, who has been working to delete those “fake accounts” ever since, as we learn. Parisian. Elizabeth Bourne’s communications team quickly made her Instagram account “private,” a restriction that allows the account owner to accept (or not) any subscription requests. At the same time, the subscription meter of the head of the government started falling again. “A process has begun with the Instagram teams,” Elizabeth Bourne’s entourage noted, still in the columns. parisianbefore condemning the “multiple fake account raids” and the “desire for misinformation behind this malicious act”.

As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, Elizabeth Bourne’s Instagram account reached 24,900 followers.

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