(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)Ctrl + NResearchers say they have uncovered a campaign on Reddit and Twitter to disseminate leaked trade documents ahead of next week’s elections in the United Kingdom. Ben Nimmo, the director of investigations at Graphika, says the campaign identified to spread the documents “certainly resembles” a foreign influence operation. Such an operation “raises the risk” of foreign interference in the British elections, Nimmo told me in an interview. Then a Twitter user known as @gregoratior began tweeting a Reddit post linking the document to senior U.K. politicians and media figures. “Posting spammy content is a violation of the Twitter Rules and we take aggressive enforcement action when we identify this content on our service, in line with our commitment to improving the health of the public conversation on Twitter,” Twitter spokeswoman Katie Rosborough said in a statement to The Technology 202.

Source: Washington Post December 03, 2019 14:11 UTC