Tobias Stone blew up Medium in 2016 with is post about Trump and Brexit. The trained historian, philosopher, and (full disclosure) husband of TechCrunch’s amazing Leslie Hitchcock, took the lessons of the past and extrapolated what we can expect to see in the next few years as our political chickens come home to roost. In this Technotopia podcast Stone shares his thoughts on the… Read More
Category: Brexit
Twitter says Russians spent ~$1k on six Brexit-related ads
Twitter has disclosed that Russian-backed accounts spent $1,031.99 to buy six Brexit-related ads on its platform during last year’s European Union referendum vote. Read More
Facebook’s Brexit probe unearths three Russian-bought “immigration” ads
Facebook has provided more details about the extent of Russian digital interference related to the UK’s Brexit vote last year. Read More
Facebook is not afraid of Brexit, creates 800 new jobs in the UK
Who’s afraid of Brexit? Not Facebook, or at least that’s what it seems.
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Facebook and Twitter to provide Brexit disinformation reports soon
A UK parliamentary committee that’s investing fake news has been told by Facebook and Twitter they will provide information relating to Russian interference during the UK’s 2016 Brexit referendum vote in the coming weeks. Read More
Jeremy Clarkson is flabbergasted by Brexit and expects the lights to go out in the UK soon
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Study: Russian Twitter bots sent 45k Brexit tweets close to vote
Research conducted by a group of data scientists looking at how information was diffused on Twitter around the June 2016 EU referendum vote suggests more than 150,000 Russian accounts were involved in tweeting about #Brexit. Read More
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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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Crunch Report | Facebook admits Russian meddling in Brexit
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Facebook subtly neither confirms nor denies Russian meddling during Brexit
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Russia’s role in the U.S. presidential election is still being investigated. Now it’s under fire for possibly meddling in the UK’s Brexit vote.
On Monday, BuzzFeed News reported about the possibility of Russian-backed ads influencing the June 2016 vote for the UK to withdraw from the European Union, also known as Brexit.
Afterwards, in a policy speech, UK Prime Minister Theresa May accused Russia of messing with the democratic process.
“It is seeking to weaponize information,” she said about the country’s tactics. “We know what you are doing and you will not succeed.” Read more…
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Facebook says Russia did try to meddle in Brexit vote
BuzzFeed has obtained a statement from Facebook in which the tech giant admits, for the first time, that some Russia-linked accounts may have used its platform to try to interfere in the UK’s European Union referendum vote in June 2016. Read More
Facebook says Russia did try to meddle in Brexit vote
BuzzFeed has obtained a statement from Facebook in which the tech giant admits, for the first time, that some Russia-linked accounts may have used its platform to try to interfere in the UK’s European Union referendum vote in June 2016. Read More