Facebook found essentially no Russian effort to sway Brexit vote

as mentioned in According to Facebook, the net Research Agency -- the Russian Administration accused of Utilizing media sites like Facebook to effect the outcome of the US presidential election -- spent less than a U.S. dollar on Facebook advertesment ahead of the Brexit vote. In contrast to the thousands of advertesment seemingly bought with Russian actors during the US presidential election, just 3 were bought during the lead up to the June 2016 Brexit vote. The New York Times tells which a breaking up research conducted with Oxford net Institute investigators and determine to be launched this 7 days found a similar lack of effort on Russia's part. "Overall, I think the Russian activity during Brexit seems to have been minimal," Philip Howard, an author of the study, said the New York Times. Damian Collins, the seat of the UK parliamentary committee which asked Facebook to look into the matter, didn't find Facebook's response adequate.

Facebook criticised for response to questions on Russia and Brexit

Damian Collins MP, the seat of the home of Commons digital, culture, media and sport choose committee, told the company's premier response to the Electoral Commission "does not answer the questions that I put to check Zuckerberg. "Facebook conducted its own study to identify tens of thousands of fake pages and accounts that were active during the French presidential election," Collins said. Just 200 people in U.K. saw the adverts, Facebook said, that cost Russia's notorious "troll factory", the net study Agency, just $0.97 to deliver. An Electoral Commission spokesperson said: "Facebook, Google and Twitter have replied to us. No work has been done with Facebook to look for other fake accounts and pages that can be link to Russian-backed agencies and that were active during the European referendum, as I requested.

Facebook and Twitter: 9 Russian Brexit advertesment found with inquiries

referring to Image copyright Getty ImagesFacebook tells its probe into Russian attempts to effect the Brexit vote has set the activity amounted to just 3 adverts. Twitter tells its own inquiry has link 6 advertesment promoting referendum-related content on its platform to Russian sources. It told the Brexit advertesment had cost less than $1 (75p) in total to post, and had reached no further than 200 UK-based viewers over 4 days. Twitter added which a total of $1,031.99 had been spent on 6 referendum-related advertesment during the campaign. Theresa May made no specific mention of any meddling in the European referendum, however there has been mounting Stress from politicians for an probe into any attempts to interfere in the vote.

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