The 'Macron Leaks' Rebel in the Briefing Room

Jack Posobiec, the Washington bureau chief for a right-wing Canadian outlet called , was coming off a big weekend. At 2:49 p.m. on May 5, Posobiec his 111,000 Twitter followers to the hacked emails that had bubbled up on 4chan: “Massive doc dump at /pol/,” he tweeted. Posobiec was among a number of American alt-right internet personalities who amplified the hack, as French media largely refrained from reporting on its contents. France imposes a blackout on campaigning in the final 48 hours before the vote, and the French election commission warned the media not