Burnham says it is 'clear' Russia interfered with Brexit referendum
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The prime minister says voters were not "sufficiently" informed about how foreign actors sought to disrupt UK democracy.

Andy Burnham has said Russia did interfere with the Brexit referendum and warned that similar activities were taking place in France and Germany.

The prime minister told The Rest is Politics podcast that upon arriving in No 10, he had asked about possible Russian interference in the 2016 vote, adding: “I’ve had the clear answer that, yes, there was.”

“I think we’ve been too much on the back foot on that actually and we haven’t informed people sufficiently about the extent to which people are seeking to disrupt the political process from overseas,” he added.

  • jimmy90@lemmy.world
    35·
    2 days ago

    …and also masquerading as left wing goons to spread confusion

    this is why social media needs authentication. can’t be social media without real people

    also check out mr hindsight blaming the victim lol

    • CobraCommander@quokk.auEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      The internet does not need authentication, that is single-handedly the worst thing that can still happen to us is to lose our free spaces.

      If you want authentication. Go join Facebook, Reddit, and all the other large corpo sites that are rolling it out en masse so your face can end up in a Palantir or similar database which will not lead to anything good happening for you.

      • taj@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 days ago

        I agree with this. Getting online in general should NOT require authorization/authentication. But the big guys - Facebook, reddit, tiktok, etc? I do see the argument there.