{"id":4575,"date":"2018-12-09T11:26:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T11:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4575"},"modified":"2018-12-09T11:26:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T11:26:13","slug":"pro-russia-social-media-takes-aim-at-macron-as-yellow-vests-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/09\/pro-russia-social-media-takes-aim-at-macron-as-yellow-vests-rage\/","title":{"rendered":"PRO-RUSSIA SOCIAL MEDIA TAKES AIM AT MACRON AS YELLOW VESTS RAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/paris-riots-960x540.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4576\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/paris-riots-960x540.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/paris-riots-960x540.png 960w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/paris-riots-960x540-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/paris-riots-960x540-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/paris-riots-960x540-560x315.png 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/paris-riots-960x540-260x146.png 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/paris-riots-960x540-160x90.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>By Carol Matlack<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Macron successfully dodged cyberattacks and fake news reports that were widely blamed on a Kremlin effort to destabilize his 2017 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with France convulsed by violent protests, the Russians appear to be back \u2013 and may be hitting closer to their mark. Among 600 Twitter accounts known to promote Kremlin views, the top hashtag now is #giletsjaunes, the French name for the so-called Yellow Vests protest movement, according to the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a unit of the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. that monitors those accounts and other pro-Kremlin activity.<\/p>\n<p>The Twitter accounts monitored by the alliance usually feature U.S. or British news. But the French protests \u201chave been at or near the top\u201d of their activity for at least a week, says Bret Schafer, the alliance\u2019s Washington-based social media analyst. \u201cThat\u2019s a pretty strong indication that there is interest in amplifying the conflict\u201d for audiences outside France, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Image Source The New Daily<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-12-08\/pro-russia-social-media-takes-aim-at-macron-as-yellow-vests-rage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Bloomberg By Carol Matlack Emmanuel Macron successfully dodged cyberattacks and fake news reports that were widely blamed on a Kremlin effort to destabilize his 2017 presidential campaign. Now, with France convulsed by violent protests, the Russians appear to be back \u2013 and may be hitting closer to their mark. Among 600 Twitter accounts known&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/09\/pro-russia-social-media-takes-aim-at-macron-as-yellow-vests-rage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PRO-RUSSIA SOCIAL MEDIA TAKES AIM AT MACRON AS YELLOW VESTS RAGE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4577,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions\/4577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}