Most of my life I've been a believer in "cock up" rather than "conspiracy" theories, and I've accepted that during elections there's manipulation of facts, some misinformation and a few lies by candidates and the supporters of various people and policies, but have usually considered these to be reasonably visible and open to challenge. However, analysis (refering to link below) of of tweet volumes showing pro Brexit hashtags (red) versus pro Remain hashtags (green) over a 2-3 month period up to the EU referendum suggests an attempt using automation to sway opinions. Someone had the resources and ability to build bots to generate a massive volume of tweets and retweets ... although this isn't conclusive in itself, why build bots if one isn't looking to subvert the result? (If I remember correctly, the y-axis relates to density per originator, or something similarly, but it's the overall increasing density over the timeline that is relevant.) Together with some information I've seen on how the DNC emails were hacked (sorry commercial NDA means I can't go into details) I'm fairly certain the UK EU referendum and US presidential election was target by a foreign state with a view to either causing confusion among the electorates and/or subvertion of the results ... just a personal opinion based on things I've seen and discussions with people doing technical analysis of "cyber" events - of course, I could be mixing my number bases and getting getting 5 from 10 +10 ... as they say, there are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't 😶
Analysis from the IC data observatory ...
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmHShwWm
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