{
  "id": 226784,
  "title": "Three French presidential candidates denounce Russian interference in the electoral campaign",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/tres-candidatos-a-la-presidencia-francesa-denuncian-injerencias-rusas",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-06T11:39:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "El Pais",
    "slug": "el-pais",
    "url": "https://elpais.com/internacional/2026-08-06/varios-candidatos-a-la-presidencia-francesa-denuncian-injerencias-rusas-en-la-campana-electoral.html"
  },
  "original_language": "es",
  "account": "French presidential candidate and leader of the centrist party Renaissance, Gabriel Attal, has denounced being the victim of a disinformation operation by pro-Russian networks, eight months before the first round of the presidential election. In recent days, two other candidates for the Élysée, centre-right Édouard Philippe (Horizons) and centre-left Raphaël Glucksmann (Place Publique), have also been targeted by interference and messages spread on the network X with the false logos of some French media outlets, such as BFM, Le Parisien or France24.",
  "summary": "Centrist Gabriel Attal claims to be a victim of fake messages spread on X attributed to a network linked to the Kremlin. Édouard Philippe and Raphaël Glucksmann were also the subject of defamation.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}