# Incident I00019: MacronTiphaine

* **Summary:** Far-right trolls on 4chan and Twitter spreading misinformation about French candidate Macron and spur support for rival candidate Le Pen.

* **incident type**: incident

* **Year started:** 2017

* **Countries:** unknown , France

* **Found via:** OII

* **Date added:** 2019-02-24
 

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Actor: 

* individual accounts on 4chan (IP addresses indicate locations of Sweden, US, France), 
* accounts on Twitter (both identifiable and anonymous).

Timeframe: a few days

Date: few hours after Macron and Le Pen were declared winners of the first round of France’s presidential election (April 23, 2017).

Presumed goals: creating and spreading hoaxes and misinformation related to Macron’s personal life, marriage, sexuality, position on terrorism, etc. to spur support for Le Pen in the second round of voting.

Method: posts and memes started on 4chan and later shared in Twitter

Counters: no actions noted.

Related incidents:

* #MacronGate and #MacronCacheCash: fake documents on 4chan about Macron’s alleged offshore account.

References:
* https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/heres-how-far-right-trolls-are-spreading-hoaxes-about
* https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/09/how-france-beat-back-information-manipulation-and-how-other-democracies-might-do-the-same/