# Macron campaign team used honeypot accounts to fake out Fancy Bear | Ars Technica

<https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/macron-campaign-team-used-honeypot-accounts-to-fake-out-fancy-bear/>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

"We created false accounts, with false content, as traps," Macron campaign digital director Mounir Mahjoubi told the Times. "We did this massively, to create the obligation for them to verify, to determine whether it was a real account."

## Facts

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