Originated online in California, just before the 2.5 hour debate between Le Pen and Macron.
Emmanuel Macron files complaint over Le Pen debate ‘defamation’ | The Guardian |
Macron, who largely succeeded in keeping his cool during the debate in the face of a no-holds-barred verbal onslaught from Le Pen, said in a radio interview that the insinuations were “fake news and lies” from “websites, some of which are linked to Russian interests”.
The provenance of the conspiracy theory is not clear, but there are signs tying the faked documents to far-right circles in California.
Associated Press (AP) reported that one of the documents purports to have been drawn up under the laws of the Caribbean island of Nevis, but actually draws some of its language from a guide to forming limited-liability companies in California. The documents first appeared on Mixtape, a relatively new northern California-based filesharing service.
In the documents, the “M” in Macron’s purported signature does not match his genuine sign-off, AP reported. Metadata embedded in the document suggested it was created just before being posted online, undermining the anonymous poster’s claim to have circulated the documents to “hundreds of French journalists” who had “all sat on this”.
The Macron campaign identified the first tweet referring to the documents as coming from the Twitter account of a far-right activist and convicted felon based in northern California.
The Macron campaign identified the first tweet referring to the documents as coming from the Twitter account of Nathan Damigo, a far-right activist and convicted felon based in northern California. Damigo is known on social media for punching a female anti-fascist in the face at a Berkeley protest.
○ Prosecutors probe fake news in French presidential vote | WaPo |
○ WashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News About Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived by Glenn Greenwald
Via Website Disobedient Media (Warning: Fake News)
George Soros Funded Think Tank Attacks Disobedient Media, William Craddick Over EU Coverage by William Craddick at ZeroHedge
It took just a few months for Disobedient Media to go from a sleepy news outlet to apparently garnering the attention of multiple power brokers on the global stage.
On February 10th, 2017, an article distributed by the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Lab attacked research published by Disobedient Media concerning the EU and added the Atlantic Council to a line of media houses and other outlets who deny the Wikileaks and Harvard Human Rights Journal supported research collected and published by Disobedient Media exposing the role that the Clintons and Department of State played in helping Laura Silsby and her co-conspirators off the hook after they were caught smuggling children illegally out of Haiti.
The Atlantic Council has accepted donations from funds owned by George Soros and a multitude of other foreign and domestic special interest groups, pushed harmful and imperialistic neoconservative political viewpoints to intellectuals and readers and promoted “black propaganda ” now debunked by the intelligence community claiming that Russia was likely to hack the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections, and that Wikileaks is a pawn of the Russian government.
Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Lab and the ‘facts’ about Ukraine
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