Reddit says a leak of official US-UK trade documents on its platform was part of a Russian political influence campaign, bans 61 accounts and one subreddit
Reddit bans 61 accounts and one subreddit for “misuse of the platform.” — Reddit said today that a leak of official US-UK trade documents …
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@benimmo
Ben Nimmo
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Well, this is pretty big. @reddit confirms that the dissemination of the UK/US trade leaks was “tied to” the earlier Russian operation “Secondary Infektion”: https://www.reddit.com/...
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@markdistef
Mark Di Stefano
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🚨 Huge. Reddit security team believes the Reddit post of leaked US-UK trade documents used by Jeremy Corbyn and Labour was part of a co-ordinated campaign coming from Russia https://www.reddit.com/...
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@mrjamesob
James O'Brien
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The most compelling publicly available evidence of Russian attempts to interfere with our democracy. Presumably, there's a lot more in the Select Committee report on this very issue - but that's not publicly available for reasons Boris Johnson has so far refused to reveal. https:…
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@zachjourno
Zach Purser Brown
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💥 Reddit says that account that posted details of ongoing US/UK trade negotiations (leaked documents that were used by Labour to show the potential break up of NHS) originated in Russia, and was linked to other coordinated Russian accounts. https://www.reddit.com/...
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@jettgoldsmith
Jett Goldsmith
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Throwback to the time the staff of reddit effectively told me to go f*** myself (circa 2014) after I presented to them evidence of organized Russian brigading on several subreddits I managed. https://twitter.com/...
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@emptywheel
@emptywheel
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Remember some of the docs leaked by WikiLeaks in 2016 pertained to trade deals. https://twitter.com/...