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Macron Campaign Emails Hacked and Posted Online
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PandaPandaPanda
Member
I actually spit my water once I saw the username
It's not like it's only one person going through the stuff or posting fake shit.
I already saw Trump voters(as if they speak french) claim some shit about macron getting a life insurance while the french documente was talking about a loan for his campaign.
Trump worshippers, Alt right and russian bots are gonna push this like crazy the next two days
They actually have ~24 hours to get this to millions upon millions of possible swing voters. Heck of a challenge.
Bonen no Max'd
Banned
I'm not super knowledgeable about French politics but since En Marche! is a brand new party wasn't he likely to be in cohabitation anyways, with the whole "neither left nor right" thing?
Well played sir.
Yeah. Barely anyone in france is going to care about this.
As the deception of the Insoumis showed, internet's reach is rather limited.
If the media can talk about it they'll have to let Macron's team talk and their opponents would rather not talk as it would only serve to incriminate them.
It's fucked up but for this one it's going to damage the FN more than En Marche.
Most of whom don't even have twitter.
Alx
Member
Yes it's a major question about the coming parliamentary elections. It seems impossible he'll get a majority (but then it seemed impossible for him to be elected president, so what do we know ?
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Bitch Pudding
Member
I believe that this kind of work has been done weeks ago... including a nice bunch of lies which cannot be debunked before the election.
First they would need to find something relatively bad in the leak, which doesn't seem to be the case considering the fact that they pushed it with no accompanying story.
Yeah. lets trust the polls guys.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
That's a bizarre canned response.
Hillary won the popular vote by a little less than the polls predicted. Even if she didn't, you'd be quite foolish to use one statistical anomaly to junk all stats analysis.
Be smarter than this. The polls were spot on for the first round.
False equivalency. People need to learn up on polling before comparing the two.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
Can you take your anti-intellectual garbage down to your local carnival please?
It's a 20 point lead. Polls would have to be multiple standard deviations off base.
whyamihere
Banned
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
It wasn't hashtags on twitter that swung the election, it was the 24 hour news cycle covering the stories non-stop. Only 21% of Americans even use twitter.
Practically CNN with their bullshit "let's host an alt-right nut every night" and "both sides" did way more harm than 4chan or wikileaks could ever do on their own.
whyamihere
Banned
Macron is now saying some of the emails are fake.
@Taniel
11th-hr Macron statement: campaign inboxes hacked; leaks are mix of real & fake docs; real ones describe campaign's legal/normal functioning
This is exactly what I thought when I saw the news.
Who's talking about only twitter?
I give US media a lot of shit but they didn't make up fake news stories and got tens of millions of clicks on Facebook.
EYEL1NER
Member
I saw where people said that there are claims in that French statement that there were fake emails mixed in with the real ones, but what are the general contents of the emails? Clinton's were a big deal (well, not really, but they were to some people) because of "Benghazi!" and the private server. Are there any scandals surrounding Macron or anything scandalous in the emails? I mean I get that his email being hacked and posted is still a big deal on its own and totally something that Russia "whoever it was" shouldn't have done, but I was wondering what in them was supposed to swing people away from him.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
it says in the 3rd paragraph that those who circulated these documents took real ones but put in fake ones as well
This is my QUICK translation, read but do not circulate I may have flubbed something
The En Marche! movement (party) has been a victim of a massive and coordinated hack which today led to the spread of a variety of internal materials (mails, documents, financial accounts, contracts) on social media.
The documents that circulated were obtained several weeks ago thanks to hacking the work email accounts of several members of the movement.
Those that are circulating the documents have added to the authentic documents a number of false documents in order to spread doubt and disinformation.
By intervening during these final hours of the official campaign, this attack smacks of an attempt to destabilize our democracy, like the attempts against the United States in the last presidential election.
During the whole campaign, En Marche! has been the party most frequently targeted by these attempts, in an intense and repeated way.
The intention of the authors of this hit and run is to harm En Marche! just hours before the second round of the French presidential election.
Obviously, the documents that came from this hack are all legal and represent the normal function of a political campaign. Their spread makes public internal data but it's not of the kind that we're worried about the legality and properness of the documents in question.
The accounts (contracts / agreements) of the campaign, of which certain scattershot elements were spread, will be disclosed at the regular time to the National Commission on Campaign Accounts. We expect, however, attention to be paid to the fact that a number of the documents published relate to provisional contracts that were never actually finalized.
We appeal to the media who wish to discuss this attack to keep in mind their responsibility. This is not a regular hack attack, but an effort to destabilize the french election. It is thus important to think about the nature of the stolen documents, keep in mind that many of the spread documents are false, and if one repeats them then one amplifies the destabilizing effect of the attack.
We will do everything necessary with public and private actors to clarify the details of this attack during the French election campaign.
The seriousness of the facts is already certainly: we would not want to tolerate the vital interests of our democracy being endangered.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
Doesn't help when everyone and their grandmother uses facebook. The fake stories spread and people assumed they are real. If you walk down the street and ask did Bill Clinton really rape 10 people chances are 5 will say yes.
Absolutely nothing. Only the fact that he has been a banker for Rothschild. So you know, he has to have off-shore accounts and steal money... Every party has been attacking him from the start and nobody could find anything on him.
SlickShoesRUCrazy
Member
French peeps, sharpen your guillotines, you got some traitors in and running for your government. Don't reward them like we do here in the US.
Insane Metal
Member
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
Hey! How come Donny's emails don't get hacked?
He just deletes them, like this.
You will note, that nobody seemed to give a fuck in the media.
Jorok Goldblade
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Carpe Libertatem
Member
Hey! How come Donny's emails don't get hacked?
because he uses snail mail and hand delivers messages instead of e-mail
could you imagine if paul revere had e-mailed that the British were coming?
Michael F. Assbender
Banned
This shows what we can expect in every US election from now until the internet is outlawed by Mega-Hitler in 2154.
Brexit defied the polls too. Also the my main source of the US election coverage was 538.. soo uhhh what pundits?
Polls are clearly not infallible. All I'm saying is, have we not learned our lesson? I'm on the same side as you guys. Let's not put all our hopes and confidence in polls. Information travels fast, pretending that the election can't be effected is wishful thinking.
Granted, I'm not that familiar with your every-day French person, so I really don't know what I'm talking about. Just trying to come from a place of realism.
With that said, I'm not trying to start an argument, even though my comment was pretty shit-posty. So, sorry about that.
Carpe Libertatem
Member
Pretty sure that they legally can't even really do that at this point
nephilimdj
Member
Hey! How come Donny's emails don't get hacked?
But they did?
His hotels were hacked and infected with malware (most likely also did other damage) and so was his voice mail
Bruce Springsteen
Member
Hahahha my favorite 2016 political meme is updated!
They are all staying quiet about campaign related news until sunday.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
From what I been reading they can't say shit.
This is fantastic.
Herr Schwarz
Banned
I say we role some tanks over to the Crimea and start shooting some Russians.
I'd rather do it now than the constant geopolitical feeling of having to look over your shoulder 24.7 whilst Russia tries to pick apart our society from within.
Let's fuck them over whilst we're still united, not after he's broken us up. I mean it's going to come to a head any way you look at it, these fucks aren't going to go away. and the only thing strongmen understand is force.
It's a police state in Russia, the "people" can't just revolt without getting mowed down.