Friday night the campaign of leading French Presidential Candidate Emmanuel Macron reported it was the victim of a massive email hack just a day and a half before one of the most important elections in the history of France.
Macron is currently leading in the polls against his far-right rival Marine Le Pen.
About 40 percent of the tweets using the hashtag #MacronGate, Perlroth noted, are actually coming from only 5 percent of accounts using the hashtag. One account tweeted 1,668 times in 24 hours, which is more than one tweet per minute with no sleep.
That account, along with the others in that 5 percent responsible for #MacronGate, appears to be automated, meaning there is no human at the helm but rather software.
Critique:
People these days now live in social media, people tend to search a way to make things becoming popular. In this case, to make the things popular, the hacked information is shared by Twitter bots, as we can see above it posts about 1,668 tweets/day. This thing will be able to become a trending topic. By doing this the leaked information is spreading fast among people.
People these days now live in social media, people tend to search a way to make things becoming popular. In this case, to make the things popular, the hacked information is shared by Twitter bots, as we can see above it posts about 1,668 tweets/day. This thing will be able to become a trending topic. By doing this the leaked information is spreading fast among people.
Source: https://www.recode.net/2017/5/6/15568582/twitter-bots-macron-french-presidential-candidates-hacked-emails
Written By: Putu Nicko Riza Adi P. (E1300190)
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