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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 ("

by 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...

by tonfa 9y ago

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...