This is Emmanuel Macron, the French presidential candidate running against Marine Le Pen, a far-right demagogue endorsed by Trump. A Russian propaganda arm recently tried to sabotage his campaign with false accusations and he legally can't fight back. We should support our heroes.

WikiLeaksOfficial on May 6th, 2017 at 04:35 UTC »

Here is something to consider; the French media is unable to discuss anything about the election until after the vote, and so the candidate is unable to defend himself.

However, this also means that the only possible vector for Russian propaganda and disinformation is through social media. While I don't advise brigading or creating false narratives on social media, what would happen if people were to fill the relevant hash-tags with cat photos, food porn, and other irrelevant information - thereby muddying the waters of that channel of information.

In other words, if people were to flood the hashtags and other disinformation channels with 'noise', it might be possible to effectively drown out the 'signal' of Russian propaganda on social media until election day... If the Russians and alt-right propagandists are going to flood social media with false information, why not just fill it to the brim with random noise until it becomes an unreliable means of communication altogether...? Just a thought.

espressoself on May 6th, 2017 at 05:22 UTC »

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stjornuryk on May 6th, 2017 at 10:49 UTC »

The wording of the title is just awful, looks like OP is saying that Macron is far right and endorsed by Trump.