French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron. (Frederic Scheiber/European Pressphoto Agency)Late Friday night, they appeared: thousands of pages of documents allegedly stolen from Emmanuel Macron's campaign. The data dump, which first appeared on the website Pastebin, included staffers' personal and professional emails, along with contracts and campaign finance information for the French presidential candidate. (See, for example, the thousands of articles and news segments produced about the Democratic National Committee's leaked emails.) Analyzing the information and sussing out what's real and what's fake takes time, the French newspaper said.

Source: Washington Post May 06, 2017 21:18 UTC