During the first round, public radio programs had already been pirated on its Paris-Est FM network when the results were announced.
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The antenna of France Inter was once again the victim of hacking, Sunday, April 24, after the announcement of the results of the second round of the presidential election. “We’ve been hacked again”indicated the station which says to have been “alert by tweets”. This very localized piracy disrupted broadcasting in part of eastern Paris.
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“We are in contact with Arcom to verify what happened”, announced Radio France, stating that the frequencies of France Inter in Paris had been disrupted “one hour”. The public company says it is investigating possible hacks in other cities, including Lyon, Rennes and Nantes. No information has filtered on the authors of this hack.
The antenna of @France Inter hacked again tonight in the 20th arrondissement ☠️ pic.twitter.com/B7PjaeHLoV
— Margaux Caroff (@margauxcrff) April 24, 2022
During the first round of the presidential election, the antenna of France Inter had already been hacked on its FM network of Paris-Est at the time of the announcement of the first results. A listening jam had taken place and an anti-system speech had been broadcast on a loop.