Imane Khelif, what is the Matrioska campaign and why Donald Trump intervened too

With a video on his Instagram account, Vladimir Luxuria had already explained in recent days that the Algerian boxer Imane Khelifdefined by many as “transgender”, was actually “born a woman”, having only “high levels of testosterone”, and that “spreading transphobic fake news about her is just a way to fuel hatred”.

The Matrioska Campaign

And now there is confirmation: according to Virginium, the French organization that monitors foreign digital interference, a manipulation campaign called “Matryoshka” is underway – starting with the fake news about the opening ceremony that mistook the queer banquet for a parody of the Last Supper, a fact immediately denied by the authors of the show and which anyone who actually followed the event could have verified – with an anti-Western function and led by Russia.
How does it reconstruct? Republic «the fake news of the trans puglie has moved within a global bubble, noisy and powerful, that french experts call “fachosphère”, a galaxy that moves between the xenophobic far right and the conspiracy theorists, the supremacists and the anti-semites. And the «fasciosphere» has the Paris 2024 Games in its sights». Because, according to many observers, attacking the most inclusive and progressive Games of the century is a priority objective for Vladimir Putin and his cronies.

Why Donald Trump Jumped On The Bandwagon So Quickly

While the boxer’s “case” was being resolved in Italy, the tycoon’s campaign immediately took advantage of the opportunity to attack Kamala Harris. But what does it have to do with it? Nothing, but obviously by relaunching the false news that Khelif was a man who was unfairly competing against a woman, he has crushed, as reported by Newspaper“bluntly rejects the idea of ​​biologically male, intersex or transgender athletes versus biologically female athletes in the Olympics.” A spokesperson told Fox News digital that “President Trump has been unequivocally clear that will not tolerate men competing in women’s sportsa crazy and unjust reality that has been allowed to emerge because of radical left-wing politicians like Kamala Harris. “We have arrived at the paradox that a sexual predator is standing up as a champion of “women and girls.” Trump’s campaign aims to attack Harris, whom he accuses of wanting to rewrite “Title IX». What is it? The Civil Rights Act that prohibits discrimination based on sex and sexual orientation in federally funded schools and institutions, a sort of Zan bill, so to speak, which for right-wing propaganda is part of the«woke ideology»which, coincidentally, was also spoken about by the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini.

How did fake news spread in Italy?

In Italy fake news has had a great boost on the right after Salvini had written on X: «Algeria’s trans boxer, banned from the world boxing championship, can participate in the Olympics» and «Enough with the follies of the woke ideology!». Even Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had commented: «It was not a match on equal terms», after the retirement of Italian boxer Angela Carini.

All this, despite the fact that Imane Khelif was regularly admitted to the Olympics by the IOC, which has had guidelines on the subject since 2021. The IOC also released a statement in her defense, in which it speaks of “misleading information about two female athletes competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics (reference is also made to Taiwanese Lin Yu-ting, competing todayed.)». According to the IOC, the disqualification from the World Championships by the IBA, led by Russia and which the IOC does not recognize, was “arbitrary”having Khelif values ​​that respect the thresholds established to compete with women. IOC President Thomas Bach also reiterated this to Meloni, during a meeting in Paris to discuss the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics. Bach told Ansa that he had also spoken to Meloni about the Khelif-Carini case and that he had reiterated not only that the boxer is a woman, but that with Meloni they shared theidea of ​​sharing more of the scientific background of the guidelines, for greater clarity. So a change of register, compared to the outbursts on social media, where in any case misinformation and the exploitation of certain episodes are now a daily occurrence.