Macron campaign emails appear to be leaked online
Source: Reuters
A large trove of emails purporting to be from the campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was posted online late on Friday, 1-1/2 days before voters go to the polls to choose the country's next president in a run-off with Marine Le Pen.
Some nine gigabytes of data were posted by a user called EMLEAKS to Pastebin, a document-sharing site that allows anonymous posting. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for posting the data or whether the emails were genuine.
A Macron spokesman was not immediately available for comment.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-macron-leaks-idUSKBN1812AZ?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social
This seems familiar. I can't quite place it. Damn thing's going to bug me all day.
Warpy
(110,913 posts)I have a feeling it will have the opposite effect in France that it did here.
wryter2000
(46,016 posts)I wonder if Assange/Putin are behind this. I will hurl if leaked e-mails screw up this election.
forgotmylogin
(7,496 posts)Comey announces they are re-opening their case regarding Macron's leaked emails.
wryter2000
(46,016 posts)Jno_Gilmor_
(127 posts)Nationalists by making her look like a Russian puppet.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,158 posts)The campaign said that genuine files were mixed up with fake ones in order to confuse people.
It said that it was clear the hackers wanted to undermine Mr Macron ahead of Sunday's second round vote.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39827244
Oh, what a surprise - fake news from hackers to throw an election to Putin's chosen one.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,361 posts)HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)Would you rather be right or not be hacked?
lunasun
(21,646 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,162 posts)Anybody could have seen this coming. They'll be coming back at us in 2018 and 2020. That is set in stone.
But Macron's campaign staff had to be acutely aware of what happened to Clinton with this hacking business. Where was the game planning?
elmac
(4,642 posts)and seems to be getting a lot of Russian hacking help also.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,158 posts)From the updated Reuters link:
Comments about the email dump began to appear on Friday evening just hours before the official ban on campaigning began. The ban is due to stay in place until the last polling stations close on Sunday at 8 p.m. (1800 GMT).
So it looks like this may go wild on the unregulated internet, but French mainstream media may not cover it. Or will that mean they won't say what's in it, or examine it to see what's real and what's fake, but will tell everyone of its existence? Which is similar to the 'Comey Effect' - rumours without actual content?
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)Macron's "offshore" accounts got leaked and Le Monde (French mainstream media) covered it on their front page as fake news. Which was funny, because I do not believe that the Macron response said that the accounts were not his.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,158 posts)Macron certainly described that as 'fake news':
On Thursday, an aide to Mr Macron told AFP news agency: "We will not hesitate to prosecute for defamation anyone who repeats this false information."
...
Speaking on French radio on Thursday, Mr Macron called the allegations "fake news and lies" and said some of the sites spreading them were "linked to Russian interests".
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They say this included the production of fake documents to give the appearance of tax evasion and a clumsy forgery of his signature.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39802776
briv1016
(1,570 posts)Though it's not like certain websites have a history of spreading fake news stories through social media. Anyone know how to say Breitbart and Infowars in french?
Mr. Sparkle
(2,915 posts)Another attack on a Democracy from a right wing dictatorship
monmouth4
(9,664 posts)an election and feel confident it will run smoothly. They are disgusting. I hope, in a way, this helps Macron.
OnDoutside
(19,908 posts)2naSalit
(86,071 posts)before we see that a certain embassy in London is less one sanctuary-seeker.
Goprox
(78 posts)Make Putin pay.