French officials have recently introduced an aggressive social media strategy in an effort to promote the country’s political messaging and combat the spread of alleged disinformation from the U.S. and other countries, Politico reported Thursday.
An X account from the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, dubbed French Response, has recently publicly pushed back against certain remarks from prominent public figures, such as Tesla CEO Elon Musk, President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, according to Politico. The social media account was first created in August 2025 before the United Nations General Assembly took place, and has since secured almost 150,000 followers, the outlet reported.
French Response has recently been widening its scope to take aim at more U.S.-based social media accounts as well as some of its historic state adversaries, Politico reported.
“The new strategy doesn’t only boil down to [French Response],” historian David Colon, a professor at Sciences Po in Paris, France, told the outlet. “It is first and foremost institutional, with the diplomatic corps mobilized for 24/7 watch.”
The White House and the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs each did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, claimed in a Jan. 26 social media post that “panicked EU bureaucrats continue to attack X,” in response to the European Commission announcing it had launched a new formal investigation against the social media platform under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
The French Response X account responded to Dmitriev’s post with a video of two men grooving to upbeat music and smoking cigarettes, with a caption that reads “Panicked EU bureaucrats right now.”
Trump signed an executive order on the first day of his second term to again withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, which officially took effect Tuesday, The Hill reported.
The State Department wrote in an X post that day that the “Paris Climate Agreement undercuts American energy independence, seeks climate finance redistribution, and tries to enforce net-zero compliance pressure,” adding that Americans’ taxpayer dollars “will not be given to countries that do not merit financial assistance.”
French Response replied to the State Department’s X post on Wednesday, claiming that while “agreements can be exited,” “scientific realities cannot.”
“Unpalatable but documented: global warming increases displacement, migration pressures and conflict risks,” French Response added in the social media post.
Another notable instance of interaction between French Response and an account linked to the Trump administration took place earlier in January in reference to the president’s aggressive bid to acquire Greenland. The White House’s X account on Jan. 14 posted an artificial intelligence (AI) generated image of two dog sleds — one heading toward the White House and one heading toward stormy landscapes of China and Russia — accompanied by the words “Which way, Greenland man?”
French Response replied to the viral post with a European Union (EU) flag emoji. Both France and Denmark, the country which Greenland is currently a part of, are members of the EU. French President Emmanuel Macron has been a vocalopponent of Trump’s plan to make the island territory a part of the United States.
The Trump administration has made headlines in recent months for its combative social media strategy. Additionally, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been trolling Republicans on social media in recent months, including using a style likened to that of Trump’s social media posts.
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