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connected to A network of Social Media accounts to a leak of the US-UK-trade documents has also spread false news online, a BBC has discovered investigation.

The accounts, publish in connection with Russia, the community section of BuzzFeed and other open-access websites, and to promote fake stories, very partisan content, and conspiracy theories.

BuzzFeed, and the question-and-answer website Quora, a lot of material removed, after they were approached by the BBC.

leakThe network activity has been a Problem in The General election, according to leaked US-UK-trade-documents the discussion site Reddit have been published.

Less than a week before the vote, and that the accounts and the leak - was - connected with Russia.

Reddit is not the details of the give evidence, nor was it definitely that the Russian government directed or sponsored, The Network that first revealed earlier in the year by researchers at Oxford and Cardiff universities, the Think Tank Atlantic Council , and a Social Media analysis company Graphika.

In a post, Reddit said a group of 61 accounts suspected "provides us with important write-up for the recent publication of the leaked UK documents, as well as insights into the opponents adjust their tactics".

On Tuesday, Graphika and said, it is a 44 stories, written by the Russian network between October of 2016 and October of 2019 had identified.

Most of the stories pushed by The Network to be online seem to be wrong or highly biased. Lost trade talk, appear, documents, by contrast, to be real.

As we knowIn a post on 6. In December, The Site released the full list of now banned accounts, which it said were part of a coordinated effort.

Which were leaked and published the leaked documents, the examined on Reddit by BBC Trending, the question of these accounts and The Material from which they are written in detail to track you on other accounts and posts on BuzzFeed, blogging site in the medium-and-answer site Quora, and a variety of less well-known blogs and Websites.

In some cases, the contributions of the blocked accounts will be copied on Reddit were, word for word almost the same time, on other pages. In other cases, unique user name or E-Mail addresses were the same.

BuzzFeed's Community section, which is written separately from the professionally-managed BuzzFeed News, by unpaid volunteers and is widely known as a source Website of Popular Quiz-and jokey listicles.

the stories in the Community area appear at with the BuzzFeed logo and branding, but carry a disclaimer at The Top : "This post has not been tested or endorsed by BuzzFeed's editorial staff. "

The BBC found several examples of accounts associated with the Russian network publication of false news stories on BuzzFeed Community.

One of the Russia-linked Reddit accounts, published a scathing assessment of the relations between Germany and Turkey. Within minutes, the same post appeared on BuzzFeed Community.

In another example, a contain the wrong material, a BuzzFeed community article written by an account named "OliverrStonne" - gave an exclusive interview with a member of the British MI6 Secret Service .

The Agent , whose name has been claimed, as "Richard Jones ", alleged that MI6 had secretly worked to prevent the election of US President Donald Trump at the command of the former British Prime Minister , David Cameron , and the candidate of the Democratic Party , Hillary Clinton .

Former Prime Minister David Cameron in a BuzzFeed-sponsored the EU referendum debate in 2016, the Made-up story, leaving in addition to the far-fetched idea that a member of the British secret services had an on-the-record interview to a pseudonymous volunteer writers, The Interview itself spun, several bizarre conspiracy theories. He claimed, for example, that Mr Cameron is secretly in favour of the Brexit (he fought against it).

of The Post , as most of the content produced, to get through the Russian network, very little attention.

BuzzFeed said The Post was previously 522, and a link to the article not to be displayed publicly posted, More Than a few times on Facebook and Twitter. Other contributions by The Network were also less Popular .

The Top of The false story that claimed that an interview with an "MI6 operative", together with the BuzzFeed disclaimer. So why bother? However, the history was to be cited elsewhere as a Reference Point , in an obvious attempt to add legitimacy to the Conspiracy Theory , if it was repeated elsewhere online.

This may also help explain why those who do not slide behind the disinformation network severe, the spread of the original false stories virally to.

was cited In a case of a fake-MI6 agent-interview, from another blog post that described the story as "BuzzFeed-report".

The blog post went on to quote a separate real article about a related topic from BuzzFeed News. It made no difference between the two stories, so apparently sought from Community post seems more credible than it actually was.

was contacted According to BuzzFeed, the BBC, the article has been removed from the Community area.

Trending written posts, and quotes of history and other fake stories found translated into other languages, then foreign language blogs.

We also found some other examples of false stories on BuzzFeed Community, as well as posts on Medium, Quora, and other websites.

such As the "OliverrStonne" post, couple of gained a lot of attention, but some were repeated, or in conjunction with other blogs and websites.

Orphan storiesThe fictional story was that only BuzzFeed-Community-post written by "OliverrStonne" account.

Publishing a single or a so-called "orphan" stories on websites, with accounts of the then inactive one of The General behaviour was identified patterns, the researcher, when exposed to first, a Russia-based disinformation campaign in the summer.

The researchers in Oxford and Cardiff universities, the Atlantic Council and Graphika called the previous campaign, the "Secondary infection" after an era of Soviet Union, the disinformation plot.

The stated: "Most of the stories designed seemed to be to drive a wedge between the Western countries. This was a sophisticated and well-equipped operation. "

The researchers said that, among other things, the stories, the undermining of the German and French leaders, the dissemination of rumors about the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea , and focused on the political controversies in the United States . Some of the forged documents.

The leaks after Mr Corbyn to claim at a press conference in November, the documents showed that the NHS is "sale", researchers said the pattern of behavior by the Reddit account of the publication of the online documents resembled that of the "Secondary infection" accounts.

Jeremy Corbyn holds the leaked documents at a press conference on 27. November There is no suggestion that the Labour Party or Mr Corbyn knew that the origins of The Network or not in contact with its members.

labour has refused to say what was the source for the documents, and the Reddit post does not seem to be the only source of the leaks about the US-UK-trade talks. For example, In July of this year, "The Daily Telegraph".

Before the election, and in The Face of criticism, the government. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said This Week that The Report will be published after Parliament is back In Session .

Buzzfeed, and " fake news BuzzFeed News was one of the most important markets brought attention to the topic of online disinformation, or "fake news" - made-up-stories going viral on Social Media during the US election in 2016.

During the US election in 2016, the pumping of fictional stories to try to take advantage of the interest in the election campaign.

The stories were to boost the traffic to be violent, news-sites, and in return, money from online advertising.

In an E-Mail, a BuzzFeed spokesperson said that only a small number of his Community contributions are first indexed by the employee, and that unvetted contributions are not from Google or it is linked to BuzzFeed's front-pages or social accounts.

It took the "MI6 interview" post and other posts highlighted by our investigation.

In a statement, BuzzFeed, said: "While the Community area is a great place for BuzzFeed audience to share positive, original content, we have Zero Tolerance for posts, the ban against our policies, the 'misleading' and 'deceptive' contributions.

"We removed this piece as soon as it was brought to our attention, and remain vigilant about keeping BuzzFeed free of the kind of fake news and misinformation that has proliferated elsewhere on The Internet . "

A spokesperson for Quora, said in a statement that the page had been removed, the accounts of the BBC identified.

Sandee Roston, a spokesman for the center, said The Site learned about the accounts, on its Website on Reddit and independent reports.

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Source of news: bbc.com