There is disquiet in Parliament that a sensitive report on Russian covert actions against the UK, including allegations of electoral interference, is being sat on by No 10.
The report includes evidence from UK intelligence services concerning Russian attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 EU referendum and 2017 general election.
Read full article: Claims No 10 'sitting on' Russian interference report - BBC News
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Saturday, 2 November 2019
Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Best for Britain: Russian Roulette
We are calling on Dominic Grieve, chair of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee, to hold an immediate inquiry into reports of Russian attacks on British democracy.
Don't let Russia play roulette with our democracy. Add your name: Russian Roulette
Don't let Russia play roulette with our democracy. Add your name: Russian Roulette
Thursday, 28 September 2017
Russian trolls slip up again
The account is now protected since this incident, which is hilariously pointless as most observers had already spotted it was a far-right fake account.That awkward moment when the Russian government forgets to turn off location services on their disinformation network Twitter accounts. pic.twitter.com/SqV2eArN7g— Vets Against Trump (@commondefense) 27 September 2017
For completeness, here's what Twitonomy can still tell us about the account:
- It uses a VPN (timezone doesn't correspond to anywhere in the US)
- It's a group account - which would be expected even if it were genuine
- The times it tweets at correspond to UTC-9 (not currently being used) or UTC + 11, which is in... Guess?
Friday, 25 August 2017
I see no Russian trolls!
The weirdness continues.— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) 25 August 2017
This Russian account tweeted just once: a smear of ProPublica, that somehow got 23k RTs. pic.twitter.com/S4F1lsIJEz
Friday, 4 August 2017
Hamilton 68: Tracking Putin's Propaganda Push... Aug 2 2017
For full, up-to-date details, see Hamilton 68: Tracking Putin's Propaganda Push... To America
Top Themes
Updated on August 2, 4:26 AM
We examined unique stories that appeared each day in the lists of Top and Trending URLs from July 21 to July 31, 2017. Articles were categorized according to issues they addressed, including primary, secondary, and tertiary themes, as many stories speak to multiple issues. The three most common primary issues out of the 91 stories analyzed involved US partisan politics, the conflict in Syria, and the investigation of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller. Digging deeper, the 54 stories related to partisan politics include 30 hostile to the Democratic Party, 14 supportive of President Trump, 2 hostile to the Republic Party establishment, and 2 targeting the U.S. Intelligence Community. Of 18 stories related to Syria, 14 attacked US actions, while 4 lauded the actions of Russia and their allies. The 9 articles targeting Robert Mueller and his investigation were uniformly hostile.
Friday, 21 April 2017
Russia-linked fake news floods French social media - EUObserver
Almost one in four of the internet links shared by French users of social media in the run-up to elections were related to fake news, much of which favoured anti-EU candidates and showed traces of Russian influence, according to a new study.
The survey, by a UK-based firm, Bakamo, published on Wednesday (19 April), looked at 800 websites and almost 8 million links shared between 1 November and 4 April.
19.2 percent of links related to media that did not “adhere to journalistic standards” and that expressed “radical opinions …
Read on: Russia-linked fake news floods French social media
The survey, by a UK-based firm, Bakamo, published on Wednesday (19 April), looked at 800 websites and almost 8 million links shared between 1 November and 4 April.
19.2 percent of links related to media that did not “adhere to journalistic standards” and that expressed “radical opinions …
Read on: Russia-linked fake news floods French social media
Thursday, 20 April 2017
Meet Le Pen's friends at Trump Tower - EUObserver
On 12 January, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was spotted by photographers drinking coffee at Trump Tower in New York.
She suggested at the time that she wanted to meet with then US president-elect Donald Trump, but it didn't work out.
What few people know is that the night before, a cocktail party was organised in the same building to raise funds for her political party, the National Front (FN).
The party was organised by an Italian businessman George "Guido" Lombardi.
Lombardi, who lives in Trump Tower, has close links with the European far-right, especially Italy's Lega Nord. He says that he has been a friend of Marine Le Pen for 20 years.
"There were people [at the party] who were favorable to her, supporters, people who are friends of mine, entrepreneurs, at least three UN ambassadors, some political consultants and advisers," Lombardi told EUobserver in a recent phone interview.
He refused to give names but described the guests that came to meet Le Pen as "American businessmen, American representatives from Wall Street, Israeli businessmen, a couple of Russian businessmen*, a couple of Asian businessmen, a couple of Italians, some French nationals"...
Read the rest at Meet Le Pen's friends at Trump Tower
* Our emphasis
She suggested at the time that she wanted to meet with then US president-elect Donald Trump, but it didn't work out.
What few people know is that the night before, a cocktail party was organised in the same building to raise funds for her political party, the National Front (FN).
The party was organised by an Italian businessman George "Guido" Lombardi.
Lombardi, who lives in Trump Tower, has close links with the European far-right, especially Italy's Lega Nord. He says that he has been a friend of Marine Le Pen for 20 years.
"There were people [at the party] who were favorable to her, supporters, people who are friends of mine, entrepreneurs, at least three UN ambassadors, some political consultants and advisers," Lombardi told EUobserver in a recent phone interview.
He refused to give names but described the guests that came to meet Le Pen as "American businessmen, American representatives from Wall Street, Israeli businessmen, a couple of Russian businessmen*, a couple of Asian businessmen, a couple of Italians, some French nationals"...
Read the rest at Meet Le Pen's friends at Trump Tower
* Our emphasis
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