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Russian bots behind '4,000% rise' in spread of lies after Salisbury and Syria attacks
Russian bots behind '4,000% rise' in spread of lies after Salisbury and Syria attacks - Govt analysis
Theresa May says "Kremlin inspired" accounts posting lies are "part of a wider effort to undermine the international system".
Online activity by Russian bots, trolls and automated accounts has increased by 4,000% in the days and weeks following the Salisbury poisoning and suspected chemical attack in Syria.
Government analysis has identified "Kremlin inspired" accounts that have repeatedly posted messages to "spread disinformation and distort the truth" - described by Prime Minister Theresa May as "part of a wider effort to undermine the international system".
One Twitter account identified by the UK Government as being a Russian bot, @Partisangirl, posted more than 2,300 tweets in less than a fortnight - an average of 200 posts a day.
The research, by Whitehall officials, found that the many of the accounts commented on both events in Salisbury and Syria.
Posts
included support for articles claiming the poison used on the streets
of Salisbury was never produced in Russia and attempts to spread the
theory that Porton Down manufactured the chemical agents used in
Syria.
Separately,
government social media experts have documented more than 45,000
posts propagating disinformation narratives in the two weeks since
the Syria attack on 7 April, with a potential reach of around 20
million social media users.
One
of the accounts named by the Government - @Ian56789 - has told Sky
News that he is not in the employment of the Kremlin.
He
said: "I have been campaigning against the Neocons and the
Neocon Wars since January 2002, when I first realised Dick Cheney and
the PNAC crowd were going to use 9/11 as the pretext to launch a
disastrous invasion of Iraq.
"This
has nothing to do with Russia. It has EVERYTHING to do with the
massive lies constantly told by the UK & US governments about
their illegal Wars of Aggression."
Mrs
May visited the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in London on
the fringes of the CHOGM summit, along with her Australian, New
Zealand and Canadian counterparts. The four nations are part of the
'Five Eyes' intelligence sharing relationship, along with the United
States.
They
were briefed by officials from GCHQ, the NCSC and the UK's Joint
Intelligence Committee on the current threat picture, including the
cyber threat posed by Russia.
Speaking
after the briefing, the PM said: "This disinformation campaign
is not just aimed at social media and the UK - it is intended to
undermine the actual institutions and processes of the rules based
system, such as the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical
Weapons. We must do all we can at every turn to challenge this."
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