Fight against
"the informational threat"
and
"foreign interference in public debate"
.
This is the objective of Viginum, the national agency for the fight against the manipulation of information from abroad, which will be launched next September.
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Its existence, formalized on July 14 by Jean Castex via a decree, was announced a few weeks ago by Stéphane Bouillon, Secretary General of Defense and National Security (SGDSN).
A structure that could have a lot to do in the perspective of the presidential election, since its mission will be to identify operations involving a foreign state and aimed at the online dissemination of false information likely to harm
"the fundamental interests"
of the country. .
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"There is a great fear of the liberal political elites, who fear Russian, Chinese, Turkish or Iranian maneuvers to serve the populist candidates"
, decrypts François-Bernard Huyghe, research director at the Institute
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