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French elections in the age of Twitter

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Twitter users around the world defied the French government's ban on publishing exit polls and preliminary results from Sunday's first round presidential election. Drawing on the spirit of Charles de Gaulle's coded broadcasts from London during WWII, the hashtag 'radiolondres' became the forum to distribute coded messages Sunday with the results.

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By Eric Olander
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