[mobiplayer]

You are either completely missing the point of the discussion or being obtuse on purpose to push a political agenda.

First of all: There's a law in France that prevents campaign and propaganda 48hrs before the vote. Similar laws exist in other countries (e.g. Spain, where it's 24hr).

Now back to the point: The planting of misleading information pushed the attackers to delay the publishing of the information so much that they fell under those 48hr previous to the vote and still dropped bogus data.

A measure of defense in depth saved Macron's bacon.