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Incident I00019: MacronTiphaine
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Summary: Far-right trolls on 4chan and Twitter spreading misinformation about French candidate Macron and spur support for rival candidate Le Pen.
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incident type: incident
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Year started: 2017
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Countries: , France
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Found via: OII
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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.
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