Exclusive: Labour election campaign boosted by fake CUK accounts

[Big Blue Plymouth]

And they're also more likely to wake up late on polling day and decide that voting comes a poor second to grabbing a quick one off the wrist and watching the One Show.

I had the misfortune of having to sit through that the other night while I was at my brother's house.

It was like being spoon-fed luke warm vomit.

Bring back Nationwide with Michael Barratt. Or Frank Bough.

[xoggoth]

This doesn't surprise me at all, that's what too many on the left seem to be about these days but, as a Tory loather, it's very balanced of you to post this one atW, well done!

Maybe it is a big cause of the link between age and political leaning, that us old farts don't spend much time looking at Facebook, Twitter and all that crap. If something isn't in my 1995 copy of The Hutchinson Encyclopedia I don't believe a word of it.

[Mordac]

"Exclusive: Labour election campaign boosted by fake Twitter accounts

Labour’s election campaign is being boosted by fake social media accounts that pump out positive messages about Jeremy Corbyn thousands of times per day, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.

One in eight messages about British politics posted on Twitter are generated by automated accounts known as web robots or “bots”.

Individual accounts each post up to 1,000 messages per day attacking Theresa May or promoting Labour. They are set up to look like personal user accounts to trick other users into thinking real people are backing Labour. Automated accounts also back other parties, but to a far smaller degree.

They were described last night by Oxford University researchers as “worrying” because of the power of automated accounts to “distort” and influence views. Twitter is predominantly used by young people, who are also more likely to be Labour supporters"

Exclusive: Labour election campaign boosted by fake Twitter accounts

And they're also more likely to wake up late on polling day and decide that voting comes a poor second to grabbing a quick one off the wrist and watching the One Show.

[AtW]

"Exclusive: Labour election campaign boosted by fake Twitter accounts

Labour’s election campaign is being boosted by fake social media accounts that pump out positive messages about Jeremy Corbyn thousands of times per day, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.

One in eight messages about British politics posted on Twitter are generated by automated accounts known as web robots or “bots”.

Individual accounts each post up to 1,000 messages per day attacking Theresa May or promoting Labour. They are set up to look like personal user accounts to trick other users into thinking real people are backing Labour. Automated accounts also back other parties, but to a far smaller degree.

They were described last night by Oxford University researchers as “worrying” because of the power of automated accounts to “distort” and influence views. Twitter is predominantly used by young people, who are also more likely to be Labour supporters"

Exclusive: Labour election campaign boosted by fake Twitter accounts