Meta Platforms Inc. will begin moving its UK users away from the company’s Irish subsidiary and onto US agreements in a move the social-media giant flagged post-Brexit.
Flashback: To when Farage and the Brexit Party voted against plans to tackle Russian propaganda in European parliament
15/03/2022
Reminders of how Brexit Party MEPs voted in crackdowns on Russian propaganda have been making the rounds on social media as the war in Ukraine intensifies.
MI5 had evidence that Arron Banks ‘ordered surveillance’ of information commissioner, MP claims in Commons
22/01/2022
Labour MP alleges Elizabeth Denham was warned by counter-terrorism officers and that ‘her office had to be swept’.
PM’s chief advisor accused by Tory insiders of creating ‘mayhem in government’.
The move protects the data of EU citizens, but it is unclear how it will affect the UK after Brexit.
Trump administration threatens UK with tariffs if Boris Johnson imposes taxes on tech giants
21/01/2020
Digital services levy due to be imposed on web-based firms like Facebook and Amazon from April.
MPs call for unlimited fines for electoral law breaches to stem flow of 'dirty money and dodgy data'
19/01/2020
Fines seen by some donors as ‘just the cost of doing business’, says electoral watchdog.
Meet Brittany Kaiser, Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Releasing Troves of New Files from Data Firm
07/01/2020
New details are emerging about how the shadowy data firm Cambridge Analytica worked to manipulate voters across the globe, from the 2016 election in the United States to the Brexit campaign in Britain and elections in over 60 other countries, including Malaysia, Kenya and Brazil.
HOPE not hate can reveal that three Brexit Party candidates in Doncaster are active members of the private Facebook group “Doncaster Brexit Party Supporters Group”, in which racist and conspiracy theorist posts, including claims of an Islamic “invasion” and racist abuse aimed at Labour MP Diane Abbott, are prevalent.
The investigation found that the firm violated both the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and the provincial Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA).
And the Green Party is not happy about it.
A post-Brexit deal should make it easier to build supermarkets, avoid tax and sue the UK, US business lobbyists say.
HuffPost UK has learned that ministers authorised more than 20 adverts, paid for with taxpayers’ cash, to go live on Tuesday, the same day Boris Johnson got MPs to back a snap general election.
Sean Topham and Ben Guerin have worked on campaigns for Australia’s rightwing coalition and Glencore mining firm.
EP Today using articles from Kremlin-funded outlet RT, says EU disinformation taskforce.
Accusing rebel MPs and EU of ‘a terrible collaboration’, prime minister admits: ‘The longer that goes on, the more likely it is of course that we will be forced to leave with a no-deal Brexit’
Observer's Carole Cadwalladr vows to fight 'meritless' latest legal threat from Brexit campaign donor Arron Banks
24/06/2019
Cadwalladr has spent the past two years investigating the Leave.EU co-founder as part of her work exposing the harvesting of millions of Facebook users’ data by the now-defunct Cambridge Analytica and the wider impact of technology misuse on democracy, including in the 2016 EU referendum.
In August 2018, Spanish authorities uncovered a plot by anti-Brexit campaigners to assassinate leading Brexiteer and now favourite to be Britain’s next prime minister, Boris Johnson. Or did they?
Avaaz uncovers 500 accounts using fake news to spread white supremacy message. / A web of far-right Facebook accounts spreading fake news and hate speech to millions of people across Europe has been uncovered by the campaign group Avaaz.
Jamal Hijazi brings libel action over EDL founder’s claim he attacked white schoolgirls
Hope Not Hate is taking out Facebook ads and sending mail shots amid fears Robinson needs just 125k votes.
Less than two weeks before pivotal elections for the European Parliament, a constellation of websites and social media accounts linked to Russia or far-right groups is spreading disinformation, encouraging discord and amplifying distrust in the centrist parties that have governed for decades.
Sources say company has run seemingly independent pro-Brexit campaigns since 2017.
Revealed: How Leave.EU faked migrant footage
16/04/2019
An investigation by Channel 4 News also reveals how Arron Banks’ pro-Brexit group appears to have staged photos of migrants attacking women in London.
Party must show how it spent £300,000 on data services in run-up to 2016 vote and 2015 election.