Facebook revives examination to check whether Russia impacted Brexit

This past December, Facebook explored whether Russia had utilized the informal organization to impact the EU Referendum vote, or Brexit. At the time, the group discovered little proof of UK-related movement from the "Web Research Agency" in Russia. Presently, in a letter from Facebook's UK approach executive Simon Milner, the organization guarantees to proceed with the examination at the demand of Damian Collins, the seat of the Digital Culture, Media and Sport Committee in the House of Commons.


Milner affirms that the work will require "various weeks" to finish, because of the definite examination of memorable information required to be finished by the present security group, which is simultaneously taking a shot at live security dangers. The group will attempt and recognize different bunches of composed action around the Brexit submission, like the one it researched some time recently. Milner likewise asks for any data the UK government has that could enable Facebook to limit its pursuit.