hkloss1:
I’m wondering what outcome would have been if not for leave campaign false promisses and lies, thatbhave surfaced after the referendum.…and now after the vote we are being told this:
telegraph.co.uk/technology/ … fake-news/
Russian trolls sent thousands of pro-Leave messages on day of Brexit referendum, Twitter data reveals
An army of Russian trolls sent thousands of messages with the hashtag #ReasonsToLeaveEU on the day of Britain’s referendum on membership of the EU, according to new data released by Twitter.
On 23 June 2016, the day of the Brexit vote, Russia mobilised an army of trolls, which at one stage included 3,800 accounts. The fake accounts Tweeted out 1,102 posts with the hashtag #ReasonsToLeaveEU.
The Russian-linked accounts Tweeted out the phrase “Brexit” more than 4,400 times during its period of activity, although mostly after the referendum had taken place.
The data from Twitter showed Russian and Iranian internet trolls sent more than 10 million Tweets in an effort to spread disinformation and discord in the West, including a day-long blitz on the day of the Brexit vote.
Russian “troll factory” the Internet Research Agency and a separate group of Iranian hackers used networks of Twitter accounts to spread divisive information, according to a new database released by the social network.
Some of the posts came from accounts masquerading as news organisations and journalists. Others came from internet personalities crafted over years by Russian hackers, such as Jenna Abrams, purportedly a Trump supporting American woman. “Remember this day It’s a new start for Britain #Brexit
Article50,” the account Tweeted.While there were attempts to influence British politics, the vast majority of the effort was dedicated to the 2016 US election, said Ben Nimmo, a senior researcher at Atlantic Council which analysed the Tweets.
“The leave EU hashtag looked like a targeted opportunity, but it is not like what we saw happen in the US, where there was two years targeting Hillary pre-election,” he said.
Twitter previously said it had only found 49 Russian IRA accounts that had tried to influence the Brexit vote, although it subsequently banned many more. The accounts also share linked, news stories to real and misleading websites, gifs and videos.
The government said that there was no evidence Russian attempts had succeeded in influencing the referendum result.
Jeremy Wright, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, said: "We are working on a range of measures to improve the online environment and build audience resilience to disinformation, including from hostile states.”
Iran also made an effort to influence British politics, launching attacks on former UKIP leader Nigel Farage and former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, while mostly praising Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Twitter revealed posts from 770 Iranian accounts that had engaged in attempts at disinformation.
“At last, a leading #UK Politician willing to stand up to the apartheid state of Israel and its murdering racist leader,” said one account. “This isn’t anti semitism, it’s anti #Apartheid.”
While some accounts Tweeted in broken English, others were surprisingly sophisticated. One Iranian account even Tweeted a rhyming Limerick criticising the UKIP leader.
Twitter released the information showing the full extent of the disinformation campaign. Twitter said: “It is clear that information operations and co-ordinated inauthentic behaviour will not cease. These types of tactics have been around for far longer than Twitter has existed — they will adapt and change as the geopolitical terrain evolves worldwide and as new technologies emerge.”
The internet trolls also targeted Russian people in a bid to swing them on domestic issues. On the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 by Russian-backed separatists, the troll factory went into overdrive. The day after the event, a coordinated campaign of 57,000 Tweets went out in an effort to shift blame for the attacks to the Ukrainian government, with many sharing hashtags including #provocationbykiev, #kievshotdowntheboeing and #kievtellthetruth appeared in a single day.
The Russian accounts used tools to amplify their attacks. One fake Tweet about claims of voting fraud was re-tweeted 25,000 times. The trolls used tools to automated their attacks more than 290,000 times.
While the attacks on the UK were limited, Nimmo said “the two operations show that American society was deeply vulnerable” to well-crafted fake accounts, such as those posing as official sources or internet personalities.
…and brexiters are surprised that remainers are ■■■■■■ off at our democracy being rigged.
The vote was not much diffrent to the way votes are being rigged in Zimbabwe, Russia and , China.Brexiters sleeping in the same bed with Russians?
The entire point to your post rests on suggesting that people vorted leave on the day of the vote due to a twitter message.
Without direct evidence from voters themselves that they indeed voted on the basis of a tweet then you have no point whatsoever, you have no eveidence at all that any single person voted on the basis of that tweet, none.
Good to seenyet more desperate moaning, all you’ve done is provide a little bit of amusement for me, compounded by ranting about missing airliners in a link to voting to leave the EU.
Oh, and no, remainers are at no point whatsoever ■■■■■■ off with “your” democracy being rigged, you are ■■■■■■ off because you didn’t get the result, that simple. Your use of the phrase “our democracy” speaks volumes more than the pointless spoonfed content of your post.
Please keep posting though, it’s funny if nothing else. Also I can’t wait to see what you come up with next, was it Saudi hits squads at each polling station telling people to vote leave,maybe 4 Russians were at the counting centre fence and hacked the computers sending the results in…
Or maybe more people used their democratic right to vote leave than those that freely voted to stay and you, and others simply can’t take it. So now you can only resort to utterly pointless rants like the one above using whatever brainwashing media source you can.
Funny how much of an expert you and other remainers suddenly become, all sorts of issues,accusations and “facts” that not one of you had perceived or used as an influence when you voted remain, the Irish border being a prime example.
For the record, I think twitter is a disgusting cesspit, occupied in equal measures by cowards, liars, bullies and sociopaths…
I’m off to re-read the foreword to the governments own treasury report written and given by George Osbourne in his 2016 masterpiece about the goeverment telling us all what will happen in immediate aftermath of a leave vote.
I’m sure Kloss and Gas Gas are aware of it as they are clearly gifted experts on the issue, (assets.publishing.service.gov.u … eu_web.pdf …page 7 for those who fancy it ) maybe we can all then look back at the immediate recession, 800,000 jobs losses we all suffered…oh, hang on…lies by remain…no I don’t believe it!!
I wait with baited breath on the edge of my seat for the cutting intellectual fact laden response, or another lame attempt to vent the remain spleen under a poorly disguised topic subject 