126 Eric Auchard &
Joseph Menn, Facebook cracks down on 30,000 fake accounts in France
Reuters, Apr. 13, 2017; Joseph Menn, Russia Used Facebook to Try to Spy on Macron Campaign Sources,
Reuters, July 27, 2017.
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Ibid. 719
Rachel Donadio, Why the Macron Hacking Attack Landed With a Thud in France
The New York Times, May 8, 2017. drawing from lessons learned in the 2016 US. election, Facebook stated publicly in April 2017 that it had suspended
30,000 accounts for promoting propaganda or election-related spam before the French poll, though subsequent press reporting on private meetings between company officials and congressional staff indicate the number of accounts ultimately suspended could have been as many as This reporting also cited evidence connecting Russian intelligence to approximately two dozen fake Facebook accounts that were used to conduct surveillance specifically on Macron campaign staff, which the company deactivated.
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The
Macron campaign, mindful it was a hacking target, also took defensive steps to furnish false logins and information in response to spear- phishing emails while hackers ultimately were able to break into campaign materials, the effort may have helped to delay the release of the information until late in the campaign, at which point it gained limited traction with a forewarned,
and vigilant, French audience.
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127 Tim Hume, Vladimir Putin I Didn’t Mean to Scare Angela Merkel with My Dog
CNN, Jan. 12, 2016. Thomas Johnson, ‘‘Merkel Appears
to Roll Her Eyes at Putin, and the Internet Can’t Get Enough
The Washington Post, July 7, 2017. Patrick Donahue & Ilya Arkhipov, In Tense Encounter, Merkel Tells
Putin Sanctions Must Remain Bloomberg, May 2, 2017; Andreas Rinke & Denis Pinchuk, Putin, Merkel Struggle to Move Past Differences in Tense Meeting
Reuters, May 2, 2017.
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Nord Stream, Who We Are https://www.nord-stream.com/about-us/ (visited Dec. 31,
2017); Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder Nominated to Russia’s Rosneft Board
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