Flexo 10 #3517 Posted November 14, 2017 https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/12/russian-twitter-accounts-tried-to-influence-brexit/ Have we seen this one, more evidence for Russian propaganda influencing the vote. Day by day we are learning the extent of Russia's influence on the Brexit leave campaign. Brexit, the ministers, the professor and the spy: how Russia pulls strings in UK Russian money is behind Aaron Banks, Nigel Farage, the Leave campaign, Brexit Central.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
chalga 10 #3518 Posted November 14, 2017 (edited) Day by day we are learning the extent of Russia's influence on the Brexit leave campaign. Brexit, the ministers, the professor and the spy: how Russia pulls strings in UK Russian money is behind Aaron Banks, Nigel Farage, the Leave campaign, Brexit Central.... Don't forget this either: http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/research/investigations/breitbart-report/ A rightwing plot to shape Europe’s future When former UKIP leader Nigel Farage was snapped having dinner with President Trump and his family by a fellow diner in late February, it caused a flurry of interest from the British media. What was not reported, but of far more significance, was the meeting Farage had earlier that afternoon. Farage gatecrashed dinner with Donald Trump because he was in the area. In fact, he had just spent three hours at the White House with the President’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon. The pair had a lot to catch up on. They had a lot to discuss and plan. As this report shows, Bannon and farage have got to know each other well over the last few years. UKIP had been identified by Bannon’s Breitbart operation several years ago. Bannon launched Breitbart London to help UKIP ahead of the 2015 General Election. Breitbart’s key funder Robert Mercer supplied Farage’s anti-EU campaign, Leave.EU, with the data tools that helped secure the Brexit vote and the UK’s departure from the European Union. In turn, Farage’s Brexit success provided Bannon, and his political master Donald Trump, with the inspirational story of the underdog defying the political establishment. This report shows that Breitbart is not a news website or a media outlet in any ordinary sense and its staff are not mainstream journalists. Breitbart is a political project, with a specific political agenda, staffed by willing propagandists. It distorts and fabricates news to deliberately incite anger in its supporters and fear in others. It pollutes the political space and demonises and vilifies its opponents. Breitbart is just one part – albeit a vital part – of a wider political project that set Britain on a path to leave the European Union and got Donald Trump elected to the most powerful job in the world. Edited November 14, 2017 by chalga Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
altus 540 #3519 Posted November 14, 2017 UKIP had been identified by Bannon’s Breitbart operation several years ago. Bannon launched Breitbart London to help UKIP ahead of the 2015 General Election. Breitbart’s key funder Robert Mercer supplied Farage’s anti-EU campaign, Leave.EU, with the data tools that helped secure the Brexit vote and the UK’s departure from the European Union. Further to that: Ukip whistleblowers raised fears about Breitbart influence on Brexit Two internal Ukip whistleblowers filed complaints to the UK’s Electoral Commission over fears the party was making “unusual arrangements” with a pro-Trump website in the months before the 2016 EU referendum, the Guardian has learned. The concerns included allegations that individuals who were being paid by Breitbart, a rightwing American news organisation, were working as senior unpaid Ukip volunteers, raising questions in their minds about whether their work could be construed as an indirect political donation by a foreign donor, according to sources who spoke to the Guardian on the condition of anonymity. One whistleblower told the Guardian that concerns that the party was turning to “off-balance-sheet financing”, possibly in violation of UK rules, prompted the decision to turn to the electoral commission. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
retep 68 #3520 Posted November 14, 2017 Meanwhile, "Nigel Farage calls on EU to investigate George Soros funding, collusion" https://www.rt.com/uk/409818-farage-soros-funding-europe/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Cyclone 10 #3521 Posted November 14, 2017 That a bit of a laugh, using twitter.. Do you think the makeup of those that voted leave (according to some) under educated, poor, disafected and the old are using twitter accounts? Funny, 'according to some' as if it's at all disputed. And yes, twitter is full of the under educated, not so much the elderly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
altus 540 #3522 Posted November 14, 2017 (edited) Meanwhile, "Nigel Farage calls on EU to investigate George Soros funding, collusion" https://www.rt.com/uk/409818-farage-soros-funding-europe/ So no accusations Soros paid people to work for the remain campaign and in breach of the rules tried to hide the fact by getting them to claim to be volunteers then. Edited November 14, 2017 by altus Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Flexo 10 #3523 Posted November 14, 2017 You read Russia Today?! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
retep 68 #3524 Posted November 14, 2017 You read Russia Today?! Strangely enough I also Read the Guardian as well, it gives me a laugh. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
L00b 441 #3525 Posted November 14, 2017 (edited) Don't forget this either: <...> Nor this more recent one, which I find positively delectable: [recall the recent revelations from the US investigation, according to which MifSud (the 'London Professor', alleged Russian agent) communicated with Papadopoulus in Trump's national security team]. Last week Boris J. said there wasn't 'a sausage' of evidence of Russian interference in Brexit. It was also reported that Professor Mifsud had stated that he'd had a meeting with Boris J. about Brexit, at a dinner where Boris J. was speaking. Boris J. denied ever having met him. (source, many more available). Then Gavin Sheridan found this. Sooo, is that Mifsud, to the left of Boris J...or is it 'a sausage'? [the other individual to his right, is Mr Prasenjit Kumar Singh, of this fame. Now, how could Brexit possibly benefit the owner of a string of private colleges and travel agencies specialising in 'importing' non-EU students, one wonders? ] Now I'm not one for conspiracy theories. But I don't believe in coincidences, either. And there's an awful lot of those accumulating by now, all involving the same people with aligned interests. Edited November 14, 2017 by L00b Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
apelike 10 #3526 Posted November 14, 2017 Do you use Twitter? No I don't as I don't do social networking so no facebook either. Out of the many I know that voted leave none do twitter and only a few are on facebook and that's mainly to stay in touch with family. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
SnailyBoy 10 #3527 Posted November 14, 2017 No I don't as I don't do social networking so no facebook either. Out of the many I know that voted leave none do twitter and only a few are on facebook and that's mainly to stay in touch with family. Phew, at least that small group won't have been influenced by Russian mischief. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
chalga 10 #3528 Posted November 14, 2017 I see that arch Brexiteer John Redwood has been advising investors to take their money out of the UK. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/13/labour-accuses-john-redwood-of-talking-britain-down Such confidence in the UK Redwood,the gift that keeps on giving: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/14/john-redwood-brexit-money-britain-eu Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...