'We have found no evidence of a significant attempt by outside forces' to sway the Brexit referendum, Facebook's Nick Clegg said Monday.
"We have found no evidence of a significant attempt by outside forces" to sway the Brexit referendum, Facebook's Nick Clegg says.
"We have found no evidence of a significant attempt by outside forces" to sway the vote, Nick Clegg, Facebook's vice president of global affairs and communications, told theClegg said the company ran two studies using data it had in the run-up to the EU withdrawal vote to see if there was evidence of foreign influence on the vote, using the same methodology that was used to identify potential Russian activity during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
British politics is in a fragile state currently, with both the public and Westminster divided over issue of the U.K.'s membership of the bloc. Brexit has been a central theme of the U.K. leadership contest, which sees Boris Johnson, a hardline Brexiteer, as the favorite to win. "I'm afraid the roots to British euroskepticism go very, very deep, and candidly, over the last 40 years, have been much more influenced by traditional media than the new media," Clegg said.
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