Facebook and Twitter to Cooperate with Brexit Vote Probe

according to Facebook and Twitter going to help the United Kingdom set whether Russia played a role in spreading misinformation leading up the Brexit vote. Similar to the United States 2016 presidential election, Britain lawmakers believe that Russia may have effected the 2016 Brexit vote in that the Britain voted to leave the European Union Union. UK lawmakers allege that Russia may have spread so-called fake break news and propaganda to mislead the public, thus manipulating the vote. Facebook Britain policy director Simon Miller wrote that Facebook is "considering how we could better respond to the Electoral Commission's request for information and expect to be enable to of respond to them with the 2nd 7 days of December."Get information Sheet, Fortune's tech newsletter. As fraction of the congressional testimony, Facebook uncovered that a Russian Administration spread divisive messages out of the social network that reached about 126 mn Facebook users based in the unite states in prelude to the 2016 presidential election.

Facebook and Twitter to provide Brexit disinformation reports soon

A UK parliamentary committee that's investing fake break news has been said with Facebook and Twitter they going to provide data relating to Russian interference during the UK's 2016 Brexit referendum vote in the coming weeks. We understand which Google has too been asked with the Electoral Commission to provide it with data pertaining to this probe. Earlier this 30 days it too Eventually admitted to finding some directory of Brexit disinformation being spread via its platform. While another academic research reckoned to have identified 400 fake Twitter accounts being run with Kremlin trolls. Twitter users who were passing themselves off as 'real people' (frequently Americans), and accruing lots of retweets, yet who have since been unmasked as Kremlin-controlled disinformation accounts.

Facebook and Twitter to give specifics of Russian-backed Brexit posts

referring to Facebook told it would respond with data with early December, while Twitter told it "intends to share our findings in the coming weeks". Collins, who requested the data from both Facebook and Twitter, told BBC Radio 4's this day program he was concerned with the "systematic distribution of false break news with particularly Russian-backed organisations". Those accounts tweeted about Brexit a total of 3,468 times – mostly after the referendum had taken place. That's why I wrote to check mark Zuckerberg asking for Facebook to give us the data about Russian-backed activity on their platform. Russian-backed organisations are known to have purchased adverts on Facebook and generated campaign content before trump beat final year's US presidential election.

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