Ask anyone living in the UK what’s up with Brexit, and you’ll likely get an answer sounding something like this: we have no idea.
Because, in a nutshell, the practicalities of Brexit are confusing as hell.
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Facebook users in the UK will now see who paid for the political ads in their feed
The words Facebook and political ads, when used in the same sentence, don’t exactly have a positive ring to them. Remember the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the Brexit referendum, and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, anyone?
But now, the pol…
Britain is getting a new passport colour after Brexit and people’s minds are totally blown
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Brexit has claimed another victim, and this time it’s a rather surprising one—our passport’s colour.
The UK government has announced that after the UK leaves the European Union, UK passports will be changing from “the standard burgundy colour” to a “blue and gold design.”
The travel doc makeover—which the government says is “A move to symbolise or national identity”— will cost £500 million ($669 million). Money well spent? Errr….
“Leaving the EU gives us a unique opportunity to restore our national identity and forge a new path for ourselves in the world,” Immigration Minister Brandon Lewis said in an official statement. Read more…
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Russian bots dropped 45,000 garbage tweets on us during the Brexit referendum
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Reports of Russian trolls meddling into the U.S. elections are quite widespread, and even subject to a recent congressional investigation.
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Less well-known is Russia’s interference in the UK’s referendum on European Union membership in 2016.
But now a paper — still incomplete — by data scientists at Swansea University and the University of California, Berkeley, is digging into the magnitude of Russian Brexit-related tweets — and the provisional results are astonishing.
Russian accounts that normally tweet in Russian and whose main subject was the Ukrainian conflict swiftly switched to English ahead of the June 2016 referendum and dumped a staggering 45,000 tweets in 48 hours with the hashtag “#Brexit,” paper co-author Tho Pham told Mashable. Read more…
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