U.K. Probes Russian Social Media Influence in Brexit Vote
- Will examine whether financing, transparency rules broken
- May look to update rules to encompass digital advertising
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The U.K. elections regulator is looking at whether Russia tried to use social media to illegally influence the Brexit referendum campaign.
Bob Posner, the U.K. Electoral Commission’s director of political finance and regulations, said in a blog posted to the regulator’s website on Tuesday that it was speaking to Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. about who paid for political advertising in the run-up to the June 2016 EU referendum and the May 2017 general election.