8 p.m. news shown on April 8, 2024: intervention with TF1

Published on 08 April 2025 | Plenary session 12 March 2025

  • Intervention
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Arcom was alerted to a segment on the unlawful tobacco trade shown on TF1's Journal de 20h on April 8, 2024.

It noted that the channel had not specified that the data presented in the documentary came from the tobacco industry.

Consequently, the Authority summoned the service editor's attention to the need to specify the origin of the information delivered on air, in accordance with its obligations relating to the honesty and rigor of information.