Prior to the election, American national security officials warned the French government of the high probability of Russian digital meddling in the election, according to the Director of the National Security Agency, Mike Rogers. Legions of pro-Trump Internet users and bots had spammed social media and rapidly spread anti-Clinton news releases and leaks across the web as was the case with the Democratic National Committee leaks and the John Podesta e-mail leaks, allegedly with aid from the Kremlin. This was not a new strategy, it had been executed to much success during the 2016 United States presidential election. These trolls used spamming of Internet memes and misinformation as tactics to assail Macron accusing him of being a ' globalist puppet' and a supporter of Islamic immigration.

In the United States, Le Pen was praised by President Donald Trump on several occasions, and she saw widespread support and praise by large numbers of online conservative trolls and Internet alt-right activists on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and 4chan, who simultaneously attacked Macron. Russia-funded media outlets such as Russia Today and Sputnik News consistently portrayed Le Pen in a positive light, and her campaign had even secured millions of Euros from a Russian lender in 2014. Le Pen's anti-immigration, anti- NATO, and anti-European Union stances attracted her the widespread support of far-right politicians and activists as far as the United States, like Donald Trump, and raised questions about possible appeasement of Russia. After a slew of events considered to be detrimental to globalization and a triumph of nationalism and isolationism, such as the Brexit referendum, and the election of Donald Trump, many international observers viewed the French election as another possible trendsetting event for Western politics. The election was widely regarded as a referendum between the internationalist centrism of Macron and the populist far-right ideology of Le Pen. The election was characterized by widespread dissatisfaction with the administration of President François Hollande and the French governmental establishment as a whole. Emmanuel Macron of the En Marche! party and Marine Le Pen of the National Front both began campaigning across France on their competing points of view. Marine Le Pen with Vladimir Putin in 2017Īfter the first round of the 2017 French presidential election produced no majority winner, the top two candidates proceeded to a runoff election to be held on 7 May of that year. Nonetheless, the Russian government denied all allegations of foreign electoral intervention. Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. The campaign said the e-mails had been 'fraudulently obtained' and that false documents were mingled with genuine ones in order 'to create confusion and misinformation.' Numerama, an online publication focusing on digital life, described the leaked material as 'utterly mundane', consisting of 'the contents of a hard drive and several emails of co-workers and En Marche political officials.' United States Senator from Virginia, Mark Warner cited the e-mail leak as a reinforcement of the cause behind the U.S. Originally posted on a filesharing site called PasteBin, the e-mails had little to no effect on the final vote as they were dumped just hours before a 44-hour media blackout that is legally required by French electoral law. The e-mails were shared by WikiLeaks and several American alt-right activists through social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and 4chan. The leaks garnered an abundance of media attention due to how quickly news of the leak spread throughout the Internet, aided in large part by bots and spammers and drew accusations that the government of Russia under Vladimir Putin was responsible.

The 2017 Macron e-mail leaks were leaks of more than 20,000 e-mails related to the campaign of Emmanuel Macron during the 2017 French presidential elections, two days before the final vote.

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