The attempts to influence by foreign powers in the critical time of presidential elections is not a new phenomenon but the American presidential campaign has shown that a milestone had been crossed in the will to manipulate by force of the Web to reach a large number of people simultaneously and without the possibility of filtering or monitoring, as in traditional media.
According to Duck Chained, the DGSE would be concerned about these attempts to orient opinion to favor one candidate over another over time. French presidential campaign and would look towards Russia, in the same way that Vladimir Putin was seen as one of the actors who facilitated the access to power of Donald Trump by organizing smear campaigns against his rival Hillary Clinton very russophile.
This concern is such that a defense counsel relating to this issue will be held in the coming weeks, possibly in connection with confidential information collected by the DGSE or provided by foreign intelligence services.
TheANSSI (National Agency for Information Systems Security) had already brought together representatives of political parties last October to discuss the risk of intrusion and data recovery during political hacking for actions carried out during the presidential campaign.
The Duck Chained suggests that the National Front could in fact benefit from influence campaigns insofar as this could again serve the interests and positions of Russia but that other parties could use this "weapon" to discredit a candidate or on the contrary come to support one in difficulty by making believe in a spontaneous popular reaction … in fact expertly orchestrated.
