Late Friday, with only minutes left before France's presidential campaign duel was due to cease fire for the weekend, it came. It's hard to tell with so little time to evaluate the mass of material suddenly leaked online. Soon after the release, France's electoral commissioned issued guidance asking French publications to refrain from covering the leak. In an email, Macron's campaign said fakes had been interspersed with real documents. But the campaign offered no examples and had only recently insisted that none of their staffers had been hacked — an embarrassing claim in retrospect.

Source: The China Post May 06, 2017 04:18 UTC