French Social Media Flooded with Fake News

[applegrove]

https://politicalwire.com/2017/04/22/french-social-media-flooded-fake-news/

"SNIP..............


“French voters have been deluged with fake news stories on their social media feeds ahead of the country’s presidential election, many from sources ‘exposed to Russian influence,'” The Independent reports.

“Researchers from Oxford University found up to a quarter of the political links shared on Twitter in France were based on misinformation. They were identified as deliberately false and expressed ‘ideologically extreme, hyper-partisan or conspiratorial’ views with logical flaws and opinions presented as facts.”


...............SNIP"

[Warpy]

1. Well, what a surprise.

Putin wants to destroy the EU. It's the biggest economic threat he's ever faced. He'd love to see Le Pen get in and France quit the EU.

[applegrove]

2. I see Trump is talking up Le Pen. I hope that causes a backlash in France against her.

[Warpy]

3. Most of the French folks I talk to are lefties

who are absolutely appalled by the success of Le Pen. I know Dolt45 is pretty universally hated there, so I hope it backfires, also.

[applegrove]

6. At least there would be a runoff no? Give the left a change to wake the f up and vote.

[Motley13]

4. I hope they aren't as stupid as we were

to fall for all the BS.

Viva la France

[JHan]

5. I saw some.. the dead giveaway:

grammatical structure. It's like the bots put their propaganda through an online translator.