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DISINFO: Emmanuel Macron's campaign has been funded by Saudi Arabia, since...

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Emmanuel Macron Elections

DISINFO: Emmanuel Macron's campaign has been funded by Saudi Arabia, since...

SUMMARY

Emmanuel Macron’s campaign has been funded by Saudi Arabia, since he is their preferred candidate in the French presidential election.

RESPONSE

The site on which the story appears is a perfect copy of that of the Belgian newspaper Le Soir on www.lesoir.be/, with a different URL lesoir.info, . The official website of Le Soir quickly denied that the story had come from their newsroom bit.ly/2mNdzn4, . This messaging is in line with the pro-Kremlin messaging.

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