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Драматическое падение акций Фейсбука на прошлой неделе (самый крупный однодневный спад в истории) может быть продолжено.

Комиссия британского парламента опубликовала на выходных промежуточный отчет расследования Disinformation and ‘fake news’: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcumeds/363/36302.htm

В отчете жестко критикуется роль Фейсбука и Cambridge Analytica в распространении лживой пропаганды.

On June 19, Britain would have voted Remain. What changed Britain so directly, so dramatically, so invisibly? pic.twitter.com/DS54PP9Eae

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) July 27, 2018

Есть также раздел Russian influence in political campaigns.

The Committee heard evidence of a co-ordinated, long-standing campaign by the Russian Government to influence UK elections and referenda, and similar evidence of foreign interference is being investigated by the US Congress in respect of the 2016 US Presidential Election. Thanks to these hearings we know that, during the Presidential Election, the Russians ran over 3,000 adverts on Facebook and Instagram to promote 120 Facebook pages in a campaign that reached 126 million Americans. In further evidence from Facebook given to our Committee, we know that the Russians used sophisticated targeting techniques and created customized audiences to amplify extreme voices in the campaign, particular those on sensitive topics such as race relations and immigration.
Disinformation is an unconventional warfare, using technology to disrupt, to magnify, and to distort. According to research from 89up, the communications agency, Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik published 261 media articles on the EU Referendum, with an anti-EU sentiment, between 1 January 2016 and 23 June 2016. Their report also showed that RT and Sputnik had more reach on Twitter for anti-EU content than either Vote Leave or Leave.EU, during the Referendum campaign. A joint research project by the Universities of Swansea and of Berkeley, at the University of California, also identified 156,252 Russian accounts tweeting about #Brexit and that they posted over 45,000 Brexit messages in the last 48 hours of the campaign.
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcumeds/363/36308.htm

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