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In its statement on Friday, En Marche! said that the documents released online showed only the normal functionings of a presidential campaign, but that authentic documents had been mixed on social media with fake ones to sow "doubt and misinformation".
"The seriousness of this event is certain and we shall not tolerate that the vital interests of democracy be put at risk," it added. ............
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The latest surveys show Macron winning with about 62 percent of the vote.
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BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)in the House and Senate. It is continuing to happen here and around the world. When will someone get some cojones and step up regardless of political affiliation? They care more about tRump possibly getting caught in collusion than about protecting world wide democracies!
Raster
(20,998 posts)...the rethuglicans in Congress care more about their majorities and their party than they do about Country. Many rethuglicans are willing to look the other way when it comes to Russia and hacking, others are forced to because of their involvement.
CousinIT
(9,257 posts)L. Coyote
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(51,129 posts)Igel
(35,356 posts)The first, that a hacker group is in Ukraine. To be sure. Probably many. Could be in Kyiv, could be in Odessa, could be in the Donbas and not under Kyiv's jurisdiction these days. Can't tell.
The second, that fake docs are in with accurate docs. We heard this same claim about the DNC doc dump. Lots of alterations, fake documents. Except that those claims stopped because, well, they didn't turn out to be all that accurate. Problem is it's easy to cite the early layer of claims as true and overlook the later lack of such claims. One's salient, and is "evidence," the other is forgotten and plopped into the Lethe.
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)same shit, different victim.
Hopefully the polls hold. He had a 20 point lead earlier in the week.
herding cats
(19,567 posts)Thank you for sharing, I'd not seen this yet.
moondust
(20,006 posts)Everybody knew this was coming after the U.S. hacking. Did Macron's campaign not hire enough cyber security people or were they unable to secure their servers for some reason?
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Is this starting to look like a Trump operation with Manafort's Ukranian hackers?
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L. Coyote
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Were trump's hackers trying to pin this hack on the Russians? The Russians certainly are not this sloppy!
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L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Are they trying to pin the French hack on the Russians to deflect from Trump paying the Russian hackers for the DNC hack?
Is the French hack hack a deflection for the American hack? Is Trump behind it?
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)France does not have M$Greedia
suffragette
(12,232 posts)TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)their strategy is to diseminate so many lies and deliberate misinformation that even the most determined, fair-minded observers will have trouble knowing what the truth is. and of course, hiding the truth from the 99% is exactly what they want to do.
L. Coyote
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(51,129 posts)French internet users mock alt-right US twitter storm
Over the course of May 6, the DFRLab conducted three machine scans of posts using the hashtag #MacronLeaks: the first from 01:00 to 08:00 UTC, the second from 08:00 to 12:00, and the third from 12:00 to 16:00. Each collected roughly 100,000 tweets.
In each period, the number of users was relatively steady, ranging between 35,000 and 39,000. This is a high rate of activity and engagement, enough to make the hashtag trend on both sides of the Atlantic
..... eight of the ten most-retweeted tweets in the hours immediately after Posobiecs launch came from Anglophone accounts three from WikiLeaks, which commented on the leaks, and five from Posobiec, who launched the hashtag drive.... By the early hours of Saturday morning, French time, the situation was even more extreme. All twenty-five most shared tweets during this period were in English. ........... divided between alt-right voices, such as Posobiec and US Twitter user Mike Cernovich, and opponents, such as the account @RVAWonk, which tracks bots and disinformation campaigns. .....
By 12:00 UTC, the balance between English and French had swung the other way. Seven out of the ten top tweets on the Saturday morning were in French; just three were in English, two from WikiLeaks and one from Posobiec. .... These evolutions are significant for what they show about the impact of the Macron leaks. Initially, the conversation was dominated by alt-right and anti-Macron voices, especially in the US alt-right movement. During the night, the emphasis shifted to French accounts; at the same time, posts mocking and criticizing the leaks began to gain traction. On Saturday afternoon (French time), the claim of Russian involvement began to dominate.
While these trends evolved, the number of posts and users remained remarkably constant. This suggests that the share of alt-right and anti-Macron messaging, which dominated the conversation initially, was progressively reduced by counter-messaging, either mocking the leaks and leakers or linking them to Russia.
This, in turn, would suggest that, although the hashtag #MacronLeaks itself performed extremely well, gathering close on half a million tweets in 24 hours, the leakers struggled to achieve the kind of seismic change in the French political debate which would be required to overturn Le Pens poll lag.
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