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by kfoley 2754 days ago
Sincere question, is this really France's "first big information war"? I feel like there was a lot of similar activity leading up their election last year try to get Le Pen elected which wasn't successful but I'm not sure how accurate that is.
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You are right. The 2017 election in France was under the spotlight especially after what happened in 2016 in the US and the Brexit in the UK.

EM! (Macron's party) was a victim of massive internet attacks during the campaign. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...

In the past couple of weeks, I have seen French fake posts that were popular in the past 24 months raise again like an army of Phoenix. As far as media go, we have usually and relatively independent media in France, even public. However, foreign entities and especially RT France have been controversial in some of their coverage.