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More than 600 Twitter accounts of the Kremlin began using the hashtag #giletsjaunes to support the movement of "yellow vests".
Bloomberg refers to the Alliance for Democracy, a division of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, monitoring Russian Twitter accounts and another activity in favor of the Kremlin.
"Macron has managed to avoid cyberattacks in order to destabilize his pro-Kremlin presidential campaign in 2017. Now that France has faced violent protests, Russians are alike among the 600 Twitter accounts known to spread the views of the Kremlin, the most popular hashtag is now #giletsjaunes, French name of the word "yellow vest", says in an article
quoted by Washington analyst, Brett Schafer. " The Alliance has drawn attention to the fact that reports previously published by information from the United States and Britain have recently moved to coverage of demonstrations in France. "[19659003] These reports often indicate that the French police are on the verge of rebellion and ready to support protesting S. Schafer says such statements are not corroborated by the facts and that the campaign information of its structure reminds of other cyber-attacks of the Kremlin.
Most Twitter account links analyzed by the Alliance are reported by the Russian official media Sputnik, Russia Today and the German agency Ruptly. belonging to RT.
As the Alliance points out, the three media are very vigilant about the protests, and RT has even reported that 12 of its journalists were injured to cover the events in France. "
Sputnik and RT have also reported that most French Kyh policemen do not intend to support the government and face protesters.As Bloomberg points out, the sources of this information come from representatives of two small police unions that garnered less than 4% of the vote in the last election.
Russian media also broadcast a video – widely circulated in French social networks – about the way South police in Pau, in In the western part of the country, he removed his helmets, which was seen as a sign of solidarity with the protesters.The local police and journalists present on the site claimed that this was not true – the police abducted the helmets to speak with "vests", but after rendering them.
The publication notes that it is still unclear whether the recent Russian reports the media or the activity of Twitter accounts pro-Kremlin on the public opinion in France. Although RT and Sputnik have websites in French, their audience is limited.
As the Facebook representative said, "content that promotes violence and harm" is banned and removed from the site "as soon as we learn of it".
"This is not least, when they widely and persistently defend negative information, at least some of these can reach French users of social networks", – said the head of the Alliance of Democracy.
Remember that in recent weeks, Paris and France have captured the mass events by a sharp increase I'm the price of fuel.
The streets of Paris turned into a confrontational arena: protesters built barricades, burned cars, smashed shop windows, clashed with police and groups of other protesters. and an increase in the minimum wage.
According to Prime Minister Philip, 5.5 thousand demonstrators take part in the demonstrations in Paris, for a total of 36,000 people in France.
According to the latest French data, the forces of the order arrested nearly 1,400 wounded, 135 wounded
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