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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><a href="https://aldianews.com/articles/politics/jack-posobiec-link-connecting-france-trump-and-russia/48031"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://aldianews.com/articles/politics/jack-posobiec-link-connecting-france-trump-and-russia/48031</font></a></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>internal documents of the electoral campaign of Emmanuel Macron, president-elect of France, were the subject of a cyber attack during the last electoral week, and its dissemination was carried out on May 5, through an anglophone forum, before being immediately spread on Twitter by an "American militant, near the far right,"</b> according to the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2017/05/06/presidentielle-2017-jack-posobiec-le-militant-pro-trump-macronleaks_a_22072877/" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 0.8;">Huffington Post France<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; background-image: url("/sites/all/modules/extlink/extlink_s.png"); background-position: 2px center; background-size: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; width: 10px; height: 10px;" /></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. </span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Belgian social media analyst Nicolas Vanderbiest said that after the publication of the documents in the 4Chan forum, frequented by surfers close to the American alt-right, <a href="https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lemonde.fr%2Fpixels%2Farticle%2F2017%2F05%2F06%2Fqui-est-le-militant-pro-trump-qui-a-relaye-les-macronleaks_5123524_4408996.html" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 0.8;">Jack Posobiec<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; background-image: url("/sites/all/modules/extlink/extlink_s.png"); background-position: 2px center; background-size: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; width: 10px; height: 10px;" /></a> was the first to share the data to his 100,000 followers on Twitter, inaugurating the hashtag "#MacronLeaks".</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Flashpoint of New York and Trend Micro based in Tokyo have shared intelligence <b>suggesting that the group of hackers known as Advanced Persistent Threat 28, Fancy Bear and Pawn Storm was responsible for filtering Emmanuel Macron’s documents. The group has been linked to the GRU, the Russian Military Intelligence Directorate, according to <span style="opacity: 0.8;">The Guardian</span></b><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/08/macron-hackers-linked-to-russian-affiliated-group-behind-us-attack" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; background: url("/sites/all/modules/extlink/extlink_s.png") 2px center no-repeat; width: 10px; height: 10px; opacity: 0.8;" /></a>.[guk]</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Days before the publication of the documents, Jack Posobiec had been active in social media against the candidate Macron, pressing the rumors about an alleged tax evasion and assuring that the now president attacked the journalists to evade his responsibility,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> according to the newspaper </span><a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2017/05/06/qui-est-le-militant-pro-trump-qui-a-relaye-les-macronleaks_5123524_4408996.html?utm_content=bufferf21ed&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 0.8;">Le Monde.<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; background: url("/sites/all/modules/extlink/extlink_s.png") 2px center no-repeat; width: 10px; height: 10px;" /></a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One day before the election, Posobiec requested on Twitter to speak in front of the French parliament in an open session on #MacronLeaks.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>According to the French media, Posobiec represents a digital site (<a href="https://twitter.com/TheRebelTV" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 0.8;">The Rebel<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; background: url("/sites/all/modules/extlink/extlink_s.png") 2px center no-repeat; width: 10px; height: 10px;" /></a>) openly supportive of Trump and Le Pen, which often disseminates inaccurate data.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"The militant appears as part of the 'Slavright', a far-right movement mainly located in Eastern Europe, considered racist and white supremacist”, according to the French media.</font></p><div class="red-text" style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Trump’s forefront</font></div><div class="red-text" style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Hours before disseminating the hacked information of Emmanuel Macron's campaign, Posobiec had been tagged in a photo along with former editor Breitbart and one of the main right-wing figures who supported Donald Trump, Milo Yinanopoulos</b>, on a Caption that read "Happy #CincoDeMilo".</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[pix]</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">posobiec has been part of the spread of false information, such as the "pizzagate" issue - conspiracy theory involving the Clinton team with pedophilia -<b> as well as the call for a boycott of the latest Star Wars film, "Rogue One," for allegedly broadcasting an anti-Trump message</b>, according to <a href="http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/monde/20170507.OBS9065/jack-posobiec-troll-americain-d-extreme-droite-qui-veut-son-quart-d-heure-de-celebrite.html" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 0.8;">L'Obs<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; background: url("/sites/all/modules/extlink/extlink_s.png") 2px center no-repeat; width: 10px; height: 10px;" /></a> newspaper in France.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[pix]</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">for its part, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-france-cyber-activist-idUSKBN187008?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 0.8;">Reuters<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; width: 10px; height: 10px; background-image: url("/sites/all/modules/extlink/extlink_s.png"); background-position: 2px center; background-size: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /></a> published yesterday that Posobiec has received access to the White House, from the Trump Administration.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Posobiec, " attended the daily press briefing on Tuesday and later broadcast video from the White House grounds with positive commentary on President Donald Trump's abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey</b>”, explains the media.[vid rebel news]</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">posobiec would have requested temporary credentials in April, but he is currently in the process of requesting a permanent pass.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The cyber attack of the French president-elect has worried the international security community since it could imply a connection between Russian digital intelligence organizations and public figures of the American extreme right.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Through social networks, Posobiec and </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">William Craddick, for example, founder and editor-in-chief of </b><a href="http://disobedientmedia.com/" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 0.8;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Disobedient Media</b><span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; background-image: url("/sites/all/modules/extlink/extlink_s.png"); background-position: 2px center; background-size: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; width: 10px; height: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); background-position: 2px center; background-size: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> have been perceived as close to each other. Craddick would have warned that French documents had been leaked minutes before it was made public.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-france-cyber-activist-idUSKBN187008?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 0.8;">Reuters<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; background: url("/sites/all/modules/extlink/extlink_s.png") 2px center no-repeat; width: 10px; height: 10px;" /></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> "two US intelligence officials said that they are increasingly confident that hackers with connections to the Russian government played a role in the French election.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” Similarly, US intelligence agencies have also concluded “hacking attacks on the Democratic Party and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign were part of a Russian-backed effort to help Republican Trump win the presidency”.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=
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</div><div style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><b>Fake news was very much a part of U.S. elections last year and now it's trickled into the French elections as well. </b></p><div class="see-also" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-transform: uppercase;"><p class="see-also-link" style="margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;">[SEE ALSO: <a href="https://mashable.com/2017/04/17/john-oliver-french-elections-le-pen-trump/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; text-transform: none;">John Oliver says the French elections are looking Trump-esque</a></p></div><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">During the presidential debate Wednesday night, Front National candidate Marine Le Pen, who runs on an anti-EU, far-right agenda, <a href="http://www.bfmtv.com/politique/le-camp-macron-deconstruit-point-par-point-l-insinuation-de-le-pen-sur-le-compte-aux-bahamas-1156799.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">raised the allegation</a> that the election's frontrunner, the centrist Emmanuel Macron, was engaging in tax evasion with an offshore account in the Cayman Islands</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. </span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"I hope that we will not find out that you have an offshore account in the Bahamas," Le Pen said during the heated debate.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Le Pen later backed down on her accusations, saying she <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjhlcfkptbTAhUqDsAKHbzbDOsQqQIIMSgAMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bfmtv.com%2Fpolitique%2Fmarine-le-pen-n-a-pas-de-preuve-qu-emmanuel-macron-a-un-compte-aux-bahamas-1156803.html&usg=AFQjCNETc9Ga-MRZtwzhUKziIjxDP6vI4g&sig2=OUexYQe7PsgEE1IzmxbchQ" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">doesn't have any proof</a>. Macron filed a <a href="http://www.leparisien.fr/elections/presidentielle/comment-le-camp-macron-riposte-aux-rumeurs-sur-un-compte-bancaire-aux-bahamas-04-05-2017-6915801.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">defamation</a> complaint. "We will not hesitate to prosecute for defamation anyone who repeats this false information," a member of his team said, adding that the candidate was victim of a "cyber information campaign."</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As pointed out by the Macron campaign in a <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/347263273/2017-05-03-Fake-news-EM-1" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">press release</a> to the French media, the "fake news" claims originated on<b> <a href="http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/123933076#123933076" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">4chan</a> /pol/ just ahead of the debate:</b></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;">An anonymous user alleged that two leaked documents, posted in the thread, were proof that Macron, a former investment banker, had a professional relationship with a bank involved in tax evasion in the Cayman Islands. </p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"People have known for a while that Macron underreported his income and assets to the government, but nobody knew where it was stored," the user said, "Here's where his money is stored<b>. See what you can do with this, anon. Let's get grinding. If we can get #MacronCacheCash trending in France for the debates tonight, it might discourage French voters from voting Macron."</b></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;">The attempt to spread the story by getting a hashtag, <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23macroncachecash&src=typd" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">#MacronCacheCash,</a> to trend is a tactic seen in the U.S. election. </p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;">The hashtag was tweeted by apparently U.S.-based, right-wing accounts in an attempt to make the story viral: </p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;">According to Nicolas Vanderbiest, a Belgian commentator for Radio France Culture, the <b>Twitter accounts were linked, in France, to <em>Sputnik</em> and <em>Russia Today</em>. </b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He tweeted: “So the fake news story on Macron’s account in the Bahamas, we can say without being misleading, that it was by the Russians.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Disobedient Media, a U.S. right-wing media organisation, published an article accusing Macron of setting up a tax evasion mechanism:</b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;">The two leaked documents allegedly show the "incorporation of a shell company in Nevis, a country that doesn't keep ownership records of corporation" and the proof "of a banking relationship with a bank involved in tax evasion in the Cayman Islands." </p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><b>However, the <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/347263273/2017-05-03-Fake-news-EM-1" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Macron campaign</a> in their press release was quick to debunk those claims. First of all, his signature looks counterfeited: </b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;">[pix sigs]</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;">Also, the documents have two different names for Macron's company — "La Providence LLC" and "La Providence LTD"; there's no co-signer in the first document; the second document has only one page; the use of a fax machine; and the date of signature of the first document, 4 May 2012. </p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Macron has <a href="http://www.bfmtv.com/politique/macron-je-n-ai-jamais-eu-de-compte-dans-quelque-paradis-fiscal-que-ce-soit-1156800.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">denied</a> having bank accounts in the Bahamas. </span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;">"I've never had an account in any tax havens because it's not my temperament and also because I've always wanted to return to the public affairs," he said. </p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px 1.5em;"><b>"It's typical of fake news. Marine Le Pen is behind this and she's backed by troops on the internet that plant them. All of this is factually false," he added. </b></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.opensourceinvestigations.com/elections/france-presidential-election-aftermath/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.opensourceinvestigations.com/elections/france-presidential-election-aftermath/</a></div></div></div>