More than half of Europeans may have seen some form of disinformation promoted by Russian actors on social networks ahead of the parliamentary election, according to an analysis we reviewed
Freire, the SafeGuard Cyber executive, said that his team had used more than 50 identifiers, including the location from which the social messages had been sent and their previous activity linked to Russian interests, to verify that the accounts were tied to Russia. The group had compiled a database of some 500,000 so-called troll or bot accounts that participated in the efforts.
"Creating something out of nothing is really hard," said Ben Nimmo, a disinformation analyst at the Atlantic Council, who was not associated with the SafeGuard Cyber analysis."It's a lot easier to amplify existing content." SafeGuard Cyber's analysis. That is based on the potential reach of a series of amplification efforts across Twitter, Facebook and Google's YouTube that was reviewed between May 1 and May 10.
, Russian-sponsored activity has remained constant, despite ongoing questions over whether Britain will participate in the upcoming EU election. During the recent debate over whether British lawmakers should accept the Brexit deal negotiated by Theresa May, Russian-backed accounts promoted both anti- and pro-Brexit positions to foster division among local voters, according to the analysis.
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