Social media timeout as French election reaches final stage
(WorldNews France)

PARIS (AP) -- The final hours of many electoral campaigns are frantic affairs, dominated by last-minute pitches, late-breaking polls and massive social media campaigns aimed at drumming up turnout. Not so in France. Rules dating back more than half a century impose a 44-hour timeout ahead of the polls' closure Sunday, meaning that politicians, journalists - and even ordinary citizens - are supposed to refrain from broadcasting any form of "electoral propaganda." The Twitter feeds of France's 11...