Reddit says U.S.-U.K. documents They are trading on the website published leaked to a Russian information campaign connected

On Friday Reddit said its security team is a collection of leaked US UK believes commercial documents had been published on the website of Russia a part of a coordinated information campaign is bound to spread disunity. “We did a post on Reddit recently become aware of the documents leaked from the UK included,” the statement said. “We have studied this account and its related accounts, and today we are to believe that this was part of a campaign that was as reported by Russia.” The site said that to break the Reddit policy against vote manipulation and abuse the platform to ban a subreddit and 61 accounts. “Facebook has discovered earlier this year, a Russian campaign on its platform, which further analyzed by the Atlantic Council and credited, secondary infection”, “Reddit that notice.” Conti suspects on Reddit were we recently reported, along with indicators of law enforcement, and we should Can confirm that actually showed a model of coordination “In his analysis, the nonpartisan think tank the Atlantic Council described secondary from fake accounts infection, manipulated documents and various online platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and medium-stories spread “attack Western interests and unity. “The Council said that the country is large and sophisticated, and therefore, from an undercover operation likely to run. Reddit, said then used these accounts to identify others who suspected the Russian campaign were. I accounts sent in different languages ​​if subreddits for different regions. “in late October an account and / gregoratior written the leaked documents and ostermaxnn later from another account and / republished. In addition, we were able to find pocket account the participation in the voting of the original post manipulation. All of these accounts have the same common pattern as recognized in the original secondary infection group, which for us was that believe, bound in fact the original group, “announcement continues Reddit. The leaked documents were a business hostly debated topic in the next British election, like the management of the National Health Service of the key issues for voters was. leader Jeremy Corbyn Labor party claimed the documents show the conservative party, the privatization of Planning National Health Service, and said the release of the documents of public interest, according the BBC. They came a televised debate BBC recently when he claimed that Corbyn Johnson wants to make a deal with the United States would increase drug prices. in addition to the post Reddit with leaked documents, none of the other places a lot of attention had been on site and many of the other places were either removed from the mod erators or other content moderation according to the prospectus Reddit. Reddit announced that the ban is a subreddit and 61 accounts, adding, [like] we conducted with the former influence operations, “we will receive this accounts for a time so that researchers and the public can they check for to see for yourself how these accounts served. “and ‘was widely reported that the intelligence of the United States has believed for years worldwide disinformation campaigns Russia has been in operation, best known false information dissemination, conspiracy and chopped democratic democratic candidate documents Hillary Clinton during violating the 2016 US elections.
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