Christmas gifts which would be taxed, your money withdrawals from ATMs which would be monitored by Tracfin, Bercy’s financial intelligence service, or even the annual energy schedule which would lead to a giant power cut. Faced with this false information circulating en masse on the Internet, and in particular on social networks, the government is equipping itself with a tool to combat fake economic news, called Bercy Décode.
Under this name, the Ministry of the Economy brings together content, videos but also written decryptions, which aim to dismantle false news. Anti-fake news information produced by Bercy’s communications teams based on “verifiable public data such as reports or studies”, we assure.