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When the leaks came out it was reported that French media was not allowed to publish anything about the leaks or face prosecution. https://www.theguardian.com/w

When the leaks came out it was reported that French media was not allowed to publish anything about the leaks or face prosecution. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/06/french-warned-not-to-publish-emmanuel-macron-leaks https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/06/french-warned-...

dsl 9y ago
Which isn't as terrible as it sounds, France has a law that does not allow campaigning or reporting on candidates for 24 (or 48?) hours before an election. The law is intended to give people time to reflect and think for themselves without being influenced before they go to vote.
- bigbugbag 9y ago
  Here is the actual law[1], article 49 of electoral code: Starting the day before voting at zero hour, it is forbidden to distribute bulletins, circular and other documents Starting the day before voting at zero hour, it is also forbidden to broadcast electoral propaganda messages using an electronic public communication. This explains with an election day newspaper still had a full cover titled "Do as you want but vote macron"[2], but does not explain why there were official legal threats used to deter reporting on the leak. [1]: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?cidTexte=LEGITEXT000006070239&idArticle=LEGIARTI000006353094&dateTexte=&categorieLien=cid https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?cidTexte... [2]: http://monde.taibaweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/arton45567.jpg http://monde.taibaweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/arton45...
- SamUK96 9y ago
  It's actually a very good law I think. The US could really do with that...
albertTJames 9y ago
To be clear they were invited by the National Commission for the Control of the Presidential Campaign not to diffuse the leak without verifying if the documents were genuine. They reminded them that if they did diffuse fake documents they risked legal action against them. Translated from french newspaper: The National Commission for the Control of the Presidential Campaign (CNCCEP) on Saturday called on the media and "citizens" not to relay the contents of these internal documents. The proceeding had been seized, in the evening of Friday, by En marche !. After meeting on Saturday morning to "take stock", she stresses in a statement that "the dissemination or the re-broadcasting of such data, obtained fraudulently and in all likelihood, may have been misinterpreted, is likely To receive a criminal qualification for several reasons and to engage the responsibility of its authors ". The CNCCEP warns: "On the eve of the most important election deadline for our institutions, it calls on all actors present on websites and social networks, first and foremost the media, but also all citizens, In order not to alter the sincerity of the ballot, not to violate the prohibitions laid down by law and not to expose oneself to the commission of criminal offenses "
- bigbugbag 9y ago
  source: https://twitter.com/cnccep/status/860636738116608005 https://twitter.com/cnccep/status/860636738116608005
tonfa 9y ago
The french media are still reporting on it. Mostly to say they couldn't find anything damaging, and that it was most likely meant to push a conspiracy agenda ("press is hiding scandals"). (fr link) http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2017/05/17/les-macronleaks-une-attaque-sans-precedent_5128735_3232.html http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2017/05/17/les-macronlea... I've also heard it was pretty bad in term of privacy with personal details of Macron supporters being published in the dump (and at least in some screenshots I've seen, there were random person address including their building access code).
- bigbugbag 9y ago
  The link you provide states that the leak contains no breaking news revelation because email was not the communication canal used for important matter. But despite the absence of such revelation does not mean the leak is void of significant content. This echoes what other media have reported, that nothing illegal has been found in the financing of the campaign but it shows that it got its money from banking networks and start-ups exposing the link between Macron and banks which has been denied during the campaign[1]. There are a number of other legitimate questions raised by the data found in the leak such as how Macron got access to parti socialiste's budget for the 2012 presidential campaign for example. Link this with the fact that parti socialiste pulled the rug under the feet of its own candidate while parti socialiste's current president Hollande was not a candidate and secretly suported Macron and you get a behind the scene glimpse on this french presidential election. [1]: http://www.liberation.fr/elections-presidentielle-legislatives-2017/2017/05/11/comment-en-marche-a-resolu-sa-question-de-fonds_1568975 http://www.liberation.fr/elections-presidentielle-legislativ... and https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/130517/la-piste-russe-des-macron-leaks-mene-un-sous-traitant-du-fsb?onglet=full https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/130517/la-pis...

dsl 9y ago

Which isn't as terrible as it sounds, France has a law that does not allow campaigning or reporting on candidates for 24 (or 48?) hours before an election. The law is intended to give people time to reflect and think for themselves without being influenced before they go to vote.

bigbugbag 9y ago
Here is the actual law[1], article 49 of electoral code: Starting the day before voting at zero hour, it is forbidden to distribute bulletins, circular and other documents Starting the day before voting at zero hour, it is also forbidden to broadcast electoral propaganda messages using an electronic public communication. This explains with an election day newspaper still had a full cover titled "Do as you want but vote macron"[2], but does not explain why there were official legal threats used to deter reporting on the leak. [1]: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?cidTexte=LEGITEXT000006070239&idArticle=LEGIARTI000006353094&dateTexte=&categorieLien=cid https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?cidTexte... [2]: http://monde.taibaweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/arton45567.jpg http://monde.taibaweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/arton45...
SamUK96 9y ago
It's actually a very good law I think. The US could really do with that...

albertTJames 9y ago

To be clear they were invited by the National Commission for the Control of the Presidential Campaign not to diffuse the leak without verifying if the documents were genuine. They reminded them that if they did diffuse fake documents they risked legal action against them. Translated from french newspaper: The National Commission for the Control of the Presidential Campaign (CNCCEP) on Saturday called on the media and "citizens" not to relay the contents of these internal documents. The proceeding had been seized, in the evening of Friday, by En marche !. After meeting on Saturday morning to "take stock", she stresses in a statement that "the dissemination or the re-broadcasting of such data, obtained fraudulently and in all likelihood, may have been misinterpreted, is likely To receive a criminal qualification for several reasons and to engage the responsibility of its authors ". The CNCCEP warns: "On the eve of the most important election deadline for our institutions, it calls on all actors present on websites and social networks, first and foremost the media, but also all citizens, In order not to alter the sincerity of the ballot, not to violate the prohibitions laid down by law and not to expose oneself to the commission of criminal offenses "

bigbugbag 9y ago
source: https://twitter.com/cnccep/status/860636738116608005 https://twitter.com/cnccep/status/860636738116608005

tonfa 9y ago

The french media are still reporting on it. Mostly to say they couldn't find anything damaging, and that it was most likely meant to push a conspiracy agenda ("press is hiding scandals"). (fr link) http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2017/05/17/les-macronleaks-une-attaque-sans-precedent_5128735_3232.html http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2017/05/17/les-macronlea... I've also heard it was pretty bad in term of privacy with personal details of Macron supporters being published in the dump (and at least in some screenshots I've seen, there were random person address including their building access code).

bigbugbag 9y ago
The link you provide states that the leak contains no breaking news revelation because email was not the communication canal used for important matter. But despite the absence of such revelation does not mean the leak is void of significant content. This echoes what other media have reported, that nothing illegal has been found in the financing of the campaign but it shows that it got its money from banking networks and start-ups exposing the link between Macron and banks which has been denied during the campaign[1]. There are a number of other legitimate questions raised by the data found in the leak such as how Macron got access to parti socialiste's budget for the 2012 presidential campaign for example. Link this with the fact that parti socialiste pulled the rug under the feet of its own candidate while parti socialiste's current president Hollande was not a candidate and secretly suported Macron and you get a behind the scene glimpse on this french presidential election. [1]: http://www.liberation.fr/elections-presidentielle-legislatives-2017/2017/05/11/comment-en-marche-a-resolu-sa-question-de-fonds_1568975 http://www.liberation.fr/elections-presidentielle-legislativ... and https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/130517/la-piste-russe-des-macron-leaks-mene-un-sous-traitant-du-fsb?onglet=full https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/130517/la-pis...