• Russian tweets on Brexit were minimal, study shows
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[url]https://www.ft.com/content/fbf8ab4c-e41d-11e7-97e2-916d4fbac0da[/url] [quote]More than 100 Russia-linked Twitter accounts published posts about Brexit in the run-up to the UK referendum, according to independent research which adds to pressure on the messaging platform to publish its own analysis. Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, part of Oxford university, sought to counter concerns from British politicians that the referendum may have been manipulated by Russian disinformation, stressing that the number of accounts it had found was not significant. The Oxford Internet Institute found that 105 accounts tweeted almost 16,000 times in two separate weeks ahead of the 2016 vote, but it is not known how many people saw these tweets. This is far smaller than the 2,752 accounts thought to have been used to target political issues around the US election. According to the Institute’s research, some 0.6 per cent of the links shared via tweets with Brexit hashtags — which could have been in favour of either the Remain or Leave campaigns — were to known Russian sources such as Russia Today or Sputnik[/quote]
If anything, I'm surprised that there were no pro-remain tweets from Russia. The UK was a great divider in the European Union, especially on matters of defense.
With people like Nigel Ferage why do they even need to do anything, if he lost he'd still smash the british public over it, if he won he would be rendered useless but britain wpuld be destroyed.
Not shocked. Regardless of how much Russian influence there was, it'd be nothing in comparison to the outright garbage that tabloids like the daily express, mail and sun put in the papers (enemies of the people, etc). that's the real issue, not Russia, but the outright lies and slander that the tabloids published
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