French politician Louis Boyard, member of the left-wing France Unbowed party, has found himself at the heart of an online frenzy.
Social media users and right-wing politicians have alleged that Boyard purposefully removed his supposedly luxury watch, ahead of an interview with French broadcaster BFMTV, in which he criticised the "ultra-rich".
Even Argentina's radical right-wing President Javier Milei has jumped on the bandwagon, resharing the viral clip as evidence of what he branded left-wing "hypocrisy", in an X post which has been viewed more than 7 million times.
Assessing the online claims
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