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    3 days ago

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    Revelations of foreign interference in the UK election, uncovered by the ABC, have been described as “highly alarming” by the Conservative Party, which will be writing to the Cabinet Office seeking urgent advice about how to combat it.

    One page presents itself as a pro-refugee left-wing group, while others reference white supremacist conspiracy theories and use AI-generated images of asylum seekers to stoke anti-immigration fears.

    Despite Meta, the parent company of Facebook, promising to take steps to address foreign interference and hate speech during the UK elections, these pages have been able to operate unchecked.

    Earlier this month, an ITV and Cardiff University investigation also traced a batch of suspicious accounts on TikTok that were pushing pro-Reform UK messages after a leader’s debate to Nigeria.

    Disinformation expert and political communications professor at the UK’s Loughborough University Andrew Chatwick said the content being pushed by the network identified by the ABC were about “sowing division and chaos”.

    Meta’s UK Public Policy director Rebecca Stimson said one of the company’s pillars of focus would be countering covert influence operations and identifying and stopping coordinated unauthentic behaviour.


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