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@europeanspodcast@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

I realise this isn't the main story, but can we talk about Emmanuel Macron's apparent allergy to punctuation?

#politics #trump #usa #france #macron #europe #greenland #iran

A screengrab of a text message from French President Emmanuel Macron to US President Donald Trump. The text reads: 

From président Macron to President Trump
My friend,
We are totally in line on Syria
We can do great things on lran
| do not understand what you are doing on Greenland
Let us try to build great things :
1) i can set up a meeting after Davos in Paris on thursday
afternoon. I can invite the ukrainians, the danish, the syrians and
the russians in the margins
2) let us have a dinner together in Paris together on thursday before you go back to the us
Emmanuel 5:01PM
A screengrab of a text message from French President Emmanuel Macron to US President Donald Trump. The text reads: From président Macron to President Trump My friend, We are totally in line on Syria We can do great things on lran | do not understand what you are doing on Greenland Let us try to build great things : 1) i can set up a meeting after Davos in Paris on thursday afternoon. I can invite the ukrainians, the danish, the syrians and the russians in the margins 2) let us have a dinner together in Paris together on thursday before you go back to the us Emmanuel 5:01PM
A screengrab of a text message from French President Emmanuel Macron to US President Donald Trump. The text reads: From président Macron to President Trump My friend, We are totally in line on Syria We can do great things on lran | do not understand what you are doing on Greenland Let us try to build great things : 1) i can set up a meeting after Davos in Paris on thursday afternoon. I can invite the ukrainians, the danish, the syrians and the russians in the margins 2) let us have a dinner together in Paris together on thursday before you go back to the us Emmanuel 5:01PM
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@liaizon@social.wake.st  ·  activity timestamp last month

@europeanspodcast there is 0 possibility this is a real screenshot, look at the icon after Macrons name its not even aligned. My guess is that the text was written by a person who then sent it to an AI who made a weird attempt at making a text message interface

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@europeanspodcast@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

@liaizon Not sure about the screenshot itself, but Macron's team have confirmed that the message itself is legit:

https://www.franceinfo.fr/internet/reseaux-sociaux/donald-trump-publie-un-message-d-emmanuel-macron-que-risque-t-on-en-rendant-public-des-discussions-privees_7756289.html

Franceinfo

Donald Trump révèle un message d'Emmanuel Macron : que risque-t-on en rendant public des discussions privées ?

Le président américain a dévoilé mardi un message privé d'Emmanuel Macron dans lequel le président français lui propose d'organiser un G7 jeudi à Paris et d'inviter "les Russes" en marge de la réunion.
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@liaizon@social.wake.st  ·  activity timestamp last month

@europeanspodcast

Why would Macron start a text message "from président Macron to President Trump" and use this wrong accent mark and lower case p to refer to himself and then not do that for Trump? It just screams fake to me, maybe the team just decided to run with it even if it was fake?

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@helianthropy@tech.lgbt  ·  activity timestamp last month

@liaizon @europeanspodcast Nah. At larger text sizes, that “in your contacts” icon does get cut off in Signal. Also, due to the fricken sensor suite/“dynamic island,” the name is gonna be lower in the screenshot (and everything is left aligned away from the buttons to the right).

Source: Just tested it.

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@liaizon@social.wake.st  ·  activity timestamp last month

@helianthropy @europeanspodcast can you share a screenshot? Super curious now

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@helianthropy@tech.lgbt  ·  activity timestamp last month

@liaizon Sorry, I’m not doxxing my friends. The screenshot posted above represents what I shared (but no blue background is set on my chat).

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@liaizon@social.wake.st  ·  activity timestamp last month

@helianthropy lol why would you dox your friends by sending a screenshot of signals interface?

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@johannesrave@chaos.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

@europeanspodcast i always find it fascinating that this is how they actually communicate - geopolitics via text message.

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@freyfogle@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

@johannesrave @europeanspodcast you have to adapt your message to attention span and reading level of the audience

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