lauren@vortex.com
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 09:27:55 -0800
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https://boingboing.net/2017/11/15/russia-used-150000-twitter-ac.html
Russian Twitter accounts posted more than 45,000 messages about Brexit in
48 hours during last year's referendum in an apparently co-ordinated
attempt to sow discord, The Times can reveal. More than 150,000 accounts
based in Russia, which had previously confined their posts to subjects
such as the Ukrainian conflict, switched attention to Brexit in the days
leading up to last year's vote, according to research for an upcoming
paper by data scientists at Swansea University and the University of
California, Berkeley.