Deceptive claims of fraud have circulated in France after incorrect presidential election runoff outcomes had been displayed on tv.
France 2 mentioned that it had displayed incorrect provisional voting figures on the night of the election on account of a "laptop error".
The broadcaster has mistakenly attributed 14.2 million votes to winner Emmanuel Macron and 14.4 million to Marine Le Pen. In response to the French Inside ministry, Le Pen ended the election with 13.3 million votes and simply 41.5% of the vote.
The confusion led some social media customers to falsely declare that the election runoff had been marred by voter fraud and that the far-right candidate "misplaced tens of millions of votes" whereas the ballots had been counting.
However France 2 has apologised and mentioned its software program had mistakenly counted some regional votes for Le Pen twice.
"A pc error led us to show incorrect figures in the course of the France 2 election night on Sunday 24 April," the broadcaster mentioned on Twitter.
"The software program that enables the channel to show the info from the Ministry of the Inside counted the votes in some communes twice for each candidates."
"This error, seen instantly, was later corrected," the broadcaster added.
Numerous deceptive claims of "election fraud" went viral on Twitter, gaining hundreds of likes and retweets.
It was commonplace that Martine Le Pen had led her centre-right rival in the course of the election, on account of her reputation in rural areas of France, the place polling stations shut earlier.
However in line with closing outcomes revealed by the French Inside Ministry, Macron received with 18.7 million votes (58.5%).
Unfounded allegations of voter fraud have beforehand circulated round elections in Germany, the Netherlands, and the US.
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