It appears French voters are not as gullible as Americans:
Macron, 66% to Le Pen's 34%. Considering the result of the popular vote in our election -- just a couple of points, if that -- there is something wrong here. Has Flint been bottling its water for sale in the red states?
Given the result in France, though, maybe there's hope for the West.
Reuters has an interesting article on the attempted hit on Macron's campaign by Wikileaks and its friends:
And, strangely enough, there is some evidence that Russia was involved.
The pro-EU centrist Emmanuel Macron has vowed to unite a divided and fractured France after winning a decisive victory over the far-right Front National candidate Marine Le Pen in the country’s presidential election.
Macron, 39, a former economy minister who ran as a “neither left nor right” independent promising to shake up the French political system, took 66% to Le Pen’s 34%.
His victory was hailed by his supporters as holding back a tide of populism after the Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s victory in the US election.
Addressing thousands of supporters in the grand courtyard of the Louvre, the vast Paris palace-turned-museum, Macron said he would defend France and Europe. He said Europe and the world are “watching us” and “waiting for us to defend the spirit of the Enlightenment, threatened in so many places”.
Macron, 66% to Le Pen's 34%. Considering the result of the popular vote in our election -- just a couple of points, if that -- there is something wrong here. Has Flint been bottling its water for sale in the red states?
Given the result in France, though, maybe there's hope for the West.
Reuters has an interesting article on the attempted hit on Macron's campaign by Wikileaks and its friends:
U.S. far-right activists helped amplify a leak of hacked emails belonging to leading French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign, some researchers said on Saturday, with automated bots and the Twitter account of WikiLeaks also propelling a leak that came two days before France's presidential vote.
The rapid spread on Twitter (TWTR.N), Facebook (FB.O) and the messaging forum 4chan of emails and other campaign documents that Macron's campaign said on Friday had been stolen recalled the effort by right-wing activists and Russian state media to promote hacked documents embarrassing to Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton last year.
And, strangely enough, there is some evidence that Russia was involved.
No comments:
Post a Comment