In his New Year's wishes to the French people, President Emmanuel Macron assured the country that he would do everything possible to ensure that the 2027 presidential election in France would take place free from any foreign interference. According to Macron, the main threat comes from Russia, which he said is trying to destabilise France and, more broadly, Europe, by orchestrating an information war. Two months earlier, the French president had made a similar warning. "We underestimate the extent to which the Russians influence our public opinion by spreading misinformation," he said. Viginum, a defence ministry service tasked with detecting...