Launch of the “Let’s be precise” X account by the government in the face of the 2027 budget

“Let’s be precise”: behind this name, which sounds like a schoolmaster’s injunction, hides the new “fact-checking” account X launched by the government this Monday, October 5. This count was created in reaction to the numerous interpretations and “false or misleading information” circulating about the 2027 budget, presented last week. The government intends to reestablish the truth.

The objective stated by Matignon is to “reestablish the facts, directly and quickly, based on verifiable data and official sources”. This account is part of a process of objectifying a factual error through “precise references to texts, reports and public data”. Already followed by more than 1,500 followers in a few hours, the government fact-checking account X published its first post late this Monday morning. And the least we can say is that the first personality targeted by this new information project may be surprising. The big winner? The president of Medef (French Business Movement), Patrick Martin.

The boss of Medef for the first check

Also president of the Martin Belaysoud Expansion group, the businessman accused in a Linkedin post political leaders of ignoring the warning signals sent by the financial markets and denounced the measures of the 2027 budget. “These are indeed 20 billion additional levies that our companies will bear under the measures already taken in 2026 or planned for 2027”, he warned, before denouncing a “new structural weakening of our productive fabric. The government immediately reacted by affirming that the amount corresponding to the additional effort of businesses for the 2027 budget amounts to 6.5 billion, or “three times less” than the 20 billion announced by Patrick Martin.