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11-15-2017, 08:39 PM
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 (http://mashable.com/2017/11/03/russian-troll-account-jenn-abrams/).*
SEE ALSO: Russian ministry of defense tweets video game screenshot to accuse U.S. of cooperating with ISIS (http://mashable.com/2017/11/14/russia-ministry-defence-videogame-picture-us/)
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... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/15/russia-twitter-bots-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 (http://mashable.com/2017/11/03/russian-troll-account-jenn-abrams/).*
SEE ALSO: Russian ministry of defense tweets video game screenshot to accuse U.S. of cooperating with ISIS (http://mashable.com/2017/11/14/russia-ministry-defence-videogame-picture-us/)
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... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/15/russia-twitter-bots-brexit-referendum/)
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