Claim: A French news channel showed during the count for the presidential election that Marine Le Pen had more votes than Emmanuel Macron, but her votes were later reduced, suggesting electoral fraud.
Fact-check: Clip of French TV shows technical glitch, not election fraud - Full Fact
Verdict: france 2, which showed the erroneous graph, has confirmed the inconsistency in figures was due to a technical glitch.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Sarah Turnnidge
Date published: 2022-04-28T00:00:00