Pro-Brexit Camp Wages Active ‘Fake News’ Twitter Campaign

F-Secure researchers analyzed 24 million tweets from 1.65 million accounts and found suspicious, likely coordinated pro-Brexit activity on Twitter: a small number of pro-leave accounts received sudden amplification (retweets/likes) from thousands of accounts, including foreign and right-wing U.S. accounts, and relied on non-authoritative sources—indicating a disinformation/amplification campaign that is difficult for platforms to detect and control.