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Trump Supporters Online Are Pretending To Be French To Manipulate France's Election

Welcome to “The Great Liberation Of France.”

BuzzFeed News was recently given access to a chatroom called The Great Liberation of France, which is hosted on a Slack-like messaging platform called Discord.

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BuzzFeed News was recently given access to a chatroom called The Great Liberation of France, which is hosted on a Slack-like messaging platform called Discord.

Discord

The head of this particular Discord group is a user that goes by @trumpwin2016. BuzzFeed News has reached out to them for comment.

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The head of this particular Discord group is a user that goes by @trumpwin2016. BuzzFeed News has reached out to them for comment.

Discord

The large majority of the work being done in The Great Liberation of France is based around creating fake Facebook and Twitter accounts to manipulate French social media users.

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The large majority of the work being done in The Great Liberation of France is based around creating fake Facebook and Twitter accounts to manipulate French social media users.

Discord

Users in the Liberation chatroom want to create as much chaos on social media as possible to make right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen and her supporters in the National Front (FN) seem like the most legitimate voice in French politics.

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Users in the Liberation chatroom want to create as much chaos on social media as possible to make right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen and her supporters in the National Front (FN) seem like the most legitimate voice in French politics.

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