Twitter declined to comment on whether it had taken any specific action in response to the Macron leak. Pictured are French nationals living in Australia.
WASHINGTON: US far-right activists helped amplify a leak of hacked e-mails belonging to leading French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign, some researchers said on Saturday, with automated bots and the Twitter account of WikiLeaks also propelling a leak that came two days before France's presidential vote.
The rapid spread on Twitter, Facebook and the messaging forum 4chan of e-mails and other campaign documents that Macron's campaign said on Friday had been stolen recalled the effort by right-wing activists and Russian state media to promote hacked documents embarrassing to Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton last year.
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