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| French media ordered by electoral commission not to publish content of hacked Macron messages |
| 2017-05-06 |
| Hiding the info to get him elected [Independent] France's electoral commission has ordered media not to publish contents of Emmanuel Macron's leaked campaign emails to avoid influencing the election. It warned news outlets in France that journalists could face criminal charges for publishing or republishing the material, under laws that came into effect at midnight forbidding any commentary liable to affect the presidential race. There were fears the hack could swing Sunday's final vote, where Mr Macron was expected to comfortably beat far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.As much as 9GB gigabytes of data were posted on a profile called EMLEAKS to an anonymous document sharing site under two days before the final vote. While French election rules forbid the media from publishing the emails, they also ban Mr Macron or his team from commenting on or denying any allegations. His En Marche! party said it had "been the victim of a massive and coordinated hack" on Friday evening, adding that it had "given rise to the diffusion on social media of various internal information". A spokesperson said the communications only showed the normal functioning of a presidential campaign, but that authentic documents had been mixed on social media with fake ones to sow "doubt and misinformation". Hiding his bizniss in Cayman islands, not Bahamas as he denies. Wait til he gets elected then the dirty shit can become public knowledge. That'll CERTAINLY make him legitimate /s |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #3 Yep. He's denied he had any in Bahamas, repeatedly. And he's probably right. Cayman's? Not so much. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-05-06 17:44 |
| #2 Reads like the Hillary cover-up to allow her to run and to try to get her elected. The Macron messages have anything to do with his offshore accounts? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-05-06 14:25 |
| #1 Once again, if they can't even secure an email server how are they going to run the country? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-05-06 11:36 |