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Either way, whether planted deliberately or left there by accident, it shows that at least those files are definitely fake.

I agree with you the meta data could mean nothing.

But "noise"? More likely you're a paid troll.

I wish somebody was paying me...

It indicates very clearly that the leaker is editing Word documents before releasing them, since French Word users are not going to use Cyrillic.

And it shows the leaker is not uber-competent.

So, if an email from Macron looks too depraved to be real, it probably is.