# Incident I00019: MacronTiphaine

* **Summary:** Far-right trolls on 4chan and Twitter spreading misinformation about French candidate Macron and spur support for rival candidate Le Pen.

* **incident type**: incident

* **Year started:** 2017

* **Countries:**  , France

* **Found via:** OII

* **Date added:** 2019-02-24


| Reference(s) |
| --------- |
| [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/heres-how-far-right-trolls-are-spreading-hoaxes-about](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/heres-how-far-right-trolls-are-spreading-hoaxes-about) |

 

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