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.
Dublin operations centre to target political misinformation ahead of EU elections in May.
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?
A post-Brexit deal should make it easier to build supermarkets, avoid tax and sue the UK, US business lobbyists say.
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.
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.
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).
Theresa May must investigate 'foreign influence and voter manipulation' in Brexit vote, say MPs
18/02/2019
Report warns ‘democracy is at risk’ and turns fire on the prime minister for failure to probe effect on referendum result.
Brexit whistleblower Shahmir Sanni calls for probe as lawyers claim Vote Leave broke election spending rules
14/04/2018
The whistleblower at the heart of the scandal surrounding the main Brexit campaign has called for a police investigation into allegations that the group breached electoral spending rules.
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’.
MPs’ frustrations grow as new evidence in America reopens the issue of Kremlin influence.
Sources say company has run seemingly independent pro-Brexit campaigns since 2017.
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.
And the Green Party is not happy about it.
Investigation follows revelations of Lynton Crosby firm running ad campaign calling voters to lobby MPs.
Sean Topham and Ben Guerin have worked on campaigns for Australia’s rightwing coalition and Glencore mining firm.
Despite an agreement by all groups to suspend campaigning in the aftermath of Jo Cox’s death, Arron Banks instructed the social media team at Leave.EU to “boost” an existing sponsored Facebook ad.
Facebook has repeatedly withheld key data on its alleged efforts to clamp down on disinformation ahead of the European elections, the EU’s executive has said.
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.
EP Today using articles from Kremlin-funded outlet RT, says EU disinformation taskforce.
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.
PM’s chief advisor accused by Tory insiders of creating ‘mayhem in government’.
European commission looks at tax rules after report reveals tech firms pay less than half the tax of traditional companies.
The official Vote Leave campaign spent more than £2.7m on targeting ads at specific groups of people on Facebook - helping it to win the 2016 EU referendum.
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.