It was meant to be one of those lazy, news-starved stretches of summer—a time when political life in France slows to a crawl and the big stories are about tourists and weather. But on 11 August 2026, at just past half past three in the afternoon, that illusion was shattered. Within ten days, three likely or declared candidates for France’s 2027 presidential election had been publicly identified as targets of foreign digital interference operations. First came Raphaël Glucksmann, the centre-left MEP, who revealed that a fake online “investigation” from the pro-Russian network Storm-1516—a group linked to Russian military intelligence—claimed his…

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