France Probes Disinfo Campaigns Targeting 2027 Election Candidates
Prosecutors say the fabricated posts used impersonated French media and false health claims to sway the 2027 presidential race.
- On Tuesday, Paris prosecutors opened an investigation into suspected Russian-linked disinformation campaigns targeting former prime ministers Gabriel Attal and Edouard Philippe, focusing on deepfakes posted to social media.
- France's Viginum watchdog attributed the campaign against Attal with a "high degree of confidence" to the pro-Russian "Matryoshka" network; security sources linked Storm-1516 to campaigns targeting Philippe and Raphael Glucksmann.
- Prosecutors previously opened a probe into a disinformation campaign against Glucksmann involving false information about his partner, Lea Salame, revealing how adversaries weaponize personal associations to discredit candidates.
- Attal's legal team said Tuesday the probe "demonstrates that judicial authorities are taking seriously" the gravity of digital interference, emphasizing protection of democratic debate from manipulation.
- The French government remains wary of Russian interference aiming to install a Kremlin-friendly candidate in the Elysee, with Glucksmann stating, "We cannot allow Vladimir Putin's Russia to manipulate the 2027 presidential election.
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France on Alert: Presidential Candidates Denounce Russian Manipulation with Deepfakes and Falsehoods
A series of destabilizing operations, attributed to pro-Russian networks, targeted three presidential candidates.The Paris prosecutor's office investigates.
The Paris Prosecutor ' s Office began an investigation into possible Russian intervention against three French politicians who could participate in the 2027 presidential elections.
France probes Russian disinfo campaign against centrist candidates
The French government is deeply wary of the risk in the 2027 polls of Russian interference aiming to put a more Kremlin-friendly candidate in the Elysee against the background of the war against Ukraine. Prosecutors are probing deepfakes and fake video reports posted on social media targeting the main two centrist candidates -- the former prime ministers Edouard Philippe and Gabriel Attal, the office of the Paris prosecutor told AFP. It had alr…
The inquiries were initially against an aspiring presidential candidate in 2027, the Social Democrat Raphaël Glucksmann.
At the beginning of August, the courts had already indicated that he had also seized the same alleged facts concerning Raphaël Glucksmann, a likely presidential candidate.
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