Former PM Joins List of French Presidential Candidates Reportedly Targeted by Russian Interference
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An investigation was opened into suspicions of Russian interference against the probable left-wing presidential candidate Raphaël Glucksmann, after the broadcast of a false report seeking to discredit him, announced Thursday the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office, requested by the AFP. ...
If the authorities do not advance, for the time being, on the potential beneficiaries of these interferences in the ballot box, there are many indications converge to the far right.
Gabriel Attal, Edouard Philippe and Raphael Gliksmann have all reported in the last two weeks that they have been the target of disinformation campaigns, which French authorities attribute to the Kremlin.
Centrist Gabriel Attal claims to be the victim of false messages broadcast in X attributed to a network linked to the Kremlin. Édouard Phillipe and Raphaël Glucksmann were also defamed.
At eight months before the French presidential elections, Russian interference with candidates is intensifying in France, even if it remains unseen. The government recalls that it recently introduced a bill, but a part of the left also asks to target platforms like TikTok or X.
Russian disinformation networks have launched an active campaign to intervene in the French presidential elections in April 2027, and in the past two weeks, at least three cases have come to light where they have distributed on social media fairies about possible candidates, including masking French publications, targeting those politicians who previously criticized Russia or expressed support for Ukraine in the war, while the narrations that pr…
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