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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:** unknown , France
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* **Found via:** OII
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* **Date added:** 2019-02-24
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Actor:
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* individual accounts on 4chan (IP addresses indicate locations of Sweden, US, France),
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* accounts on Twitter (both identifiable and anonymous).
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Timeframe: a few days
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Date: few hours after Macron and Le Pen were declared winners of the first round of France’s presidential election (April 23, 2017).
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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.
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Method: posts and memes started on 4chan and later shared in Twitter
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Counters: no actions noted.
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Related incidents:
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* #MacronGate and #MacronCacheCash: fake documents on 4chan about Macron’s alleged offshore account.
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References:
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* https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/heres-how-far-right-trolls-are-spreading-hoaxes-about
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* https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/09/how-france-beat-back-information-manipulation-and-how-other-democracies-might-do-the-same/
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