Russian bots dropped 45,000 garbage tweets on us during the Brexit referendum
 

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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