• Wikileaks releases 9Gb of Macron emails - currently being analyzed
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[video]https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/860596711709868032[/video] [QUOTE]A large trove of emails from the campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was posted online late on Friday, 1-1/2 days before voters go to the polls to choose the country's next president in a run-off against far-right rival Marine Le Pen.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-macron-leaks-idUSKBN1812AZ[/url]
This totally doesn't look like Russian interference or anything.
fucking not again.
So do we deny interference on this one too?
How fucking convenient. How long until governments start ordering Wikileaks be null-routed for being a propaganda arm for Putin? (As if it'll work, but still.)
I hope there's nothing too damaging in there.
It's only the day before, so the impact will be minimal. But still is this going to be the new standard?
Guess what though this one is from /Pol/, seriously. This contiues from the Cayman Isle "Leak" Macron Had.
And we're supposed to believe that Wikileaks are non-partisan?
[QUOTE=Lambeth;52191523]I hope there's nothing too damaging in there.[/QUOTE] I'm currently trying to study the files, a lot of the files are PDF and it's really hard to find what's interesting. 9Gb is a lot, wikipedia is about 8GB in total iirc, for comparison.
Crazy thing about Wikileaks that kind of flew under the radar: if last month's [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuadorian_general_election,_2017"]close election in Ecuador[/URL] had gone the other way, Julian Assange [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/09/ecuador-julian-assange-embassy-notice-eviction"]would have been evicted[/URL] from their London embassy and arrested
So one of the candidates is pro russia, the other isn't, the latter has damaging emails leaked. I wish I could see the pattern :thinking:
I don't really understand what everyone's so freaked out about, the leak may be fake, it may not be, you're all acting like anything damning in there is going to be a bad thing and people shouldn't know about it but I really can't understand why?
[QUOTE=RB33;52191525][B]It's only the day before, so the inpact will be minimal.[/B] But still is this going to be the new standard?[/QUOTE] Clinton's email investigation being reopened was only days before the campaign too.
[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;52191544]And we're supposed to believe that Wikileaks are non-partisan?[/QUOTE] Before Coerced by I think I know who, Wikileaks dumped info of Le Pen Edit: Me and a few others connected dots, that Wikileaks is controlled by Putin because they leaked Russian Mafia Documents and Putin blackmailed them.
Do you guys actually have any sources or facts linking this to Putin? [editline]5th May 2017[/editline] If not then that's really autistic [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Shitposting - The term you were looking for was speculative, not autistic, think about how you word stuff in the future" - Reagy))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=OmniConsUme;52191568]Before Coerced by I think I know who, Wikileaks dumped info of Le Pen Edit: Me and a few others connected dots, that Wikileaks is controlled by Putin because they leaked Russian Mafia Documents and Putin blackmailed them.[/QUOTE] When did they leak Le Pen documents?
[url]http://www.lemonde.fr/election-presidentielle-2017/article/2017/05/06/l-equipe-d-en-marche-fait-etat-d-une-action-de-piratage-massive-et-coordonnee_5123310_4854003.html[/url] it's a french article but his team just confirmed they've been hacked
[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;52191544]And we're supposed to believe that Wikileaks are non-partisan?[/QUOTE] They didn't leak it, someone put those leaks on pastebin and apparently mixtape.moe as well, and then posted those links on /pol/, who then kicked the ball down the court to whoever is best suited to investigate such massive leaks in full with at least some credibility or media reach. I mean, it would be seriously ballsy from Wikileaks if they actually were behind the leaks, but so far I can see, they ain't.
[QUOTE=Claxx;52191560]I don't really understand what everyone's so freaked out about, the leak may be fake, it may not be, you're all acting like anything damning in there is going to be a bad thing and people shouldn't know about it but I really can't understand why?[/QUOTE] It's kind of an interesting dilemma. In a situation where the next President [U]will[/U] be either a centrist or a member of the far-right, if you obtained legitimate proof that the centrist was dodging taxes or something, would you release it? And if not, [I]how[/I] bad would the information have to be before you said 'ok, the public needs to know this even if it makes the far-right win'
[QUOTE=Claxx;52191577]Do you guys actually have any sources or facts linking this to Putin? [editline]5th May 2017[/editline] If not then that's really autistic[/QUOTE] Only autistic people are able to perform feats of basic logic.
[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;52191544]And we're supposed to believe that Wikileaks are non-partisan?[/QUOTE]NOTHING is non-partisan.
WikiLeaks are such cucks for the alt-right
[QUOTE=Claxx;52191577]Do you guys actually have any sources or facts linking this to Putin? [editline]5th May 2017[/editline] If not then that's really autistic[/QUOTE] You couldn't go with "speculative" or "conspiratorial" or anything
I really wonder why they didn't publish this a few days earlier. They literally published just as [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_silence"]electoral silence[/URL] came into effect, meaning that Le Pen will be unable to campaign on this. I suppose Macron will be unable to defend himself, too?
There's a line being crossed at this point between whistleblowing and hacking. If you're just helping another country dump their hacked intelligence, you're not whistleblowing. If this came from someone inside the campaign it'd be a different story, but it seems pretty clear what's going on now. On one hand, I can't be upset about having some insight into the inner workings of another political campaign, but at the same time when it's so blatantly one sided.. I understand the backlash. I still disagree with people who ignore the content though.
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[QUOTE=Claxx;52191577]Do you guys actually have any sources or facts linking this to Putin? [editline]5th May 2017[/editline] If not then that's really autistic[/QUOTE] Only see two posts in this thread prior to yours that brought up the Russian government. I guess I do find it rather odd Wikileaks would do an email dump prior to both the United States and French elections.
[QUOTE=Claxx;52191577]Do you guys actually have any sources or facts linking this to Putin? [editline]5th May 2017[/editline] If not then that's really autistic[/QUOTE] How is it autistic to think that a state like Russia, benefiting from populist far-right candidates winning elections, might sponsor leaks to further the chances of having this outcome? Accusations abound in the US the with Trump, and Le Pen's Party is known to take Russian money. People have been making claiming this connection for a while, this builds on their suspicion. The veracity of those documents has yet to be analysed. True or not, this material may harm the Macron campaign.
[QUOTE=BF;52191614]WikiLeaks are such cucks for the alt-right[/QUOTE] Frankly there should be some kind of alternative to Wikileaks to provide a way to combat countries from being taken over by bluntly destructive parties.
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