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The social media company Reddit said it has detected a suspected Russian disinformation campaign on the site intended to spread confidential U.K. government documents ahead of next weeks election.<\/p>\n

That comes after social media analytics firm Graphika suggested in a report earlier this week that Russian tactics played some role<\/a> in the leak of the documents last month, which detailed U.S. and U.K. discussions leading up to Brexit.<\/p>\n

The documents showed that U.S. officials wanted the U.K.s National Health Service to be \u201con the table\u201d in any post-Brexit talks \u2014 a claim that bolstered an attack line by the opposition Labour Party and fed allegations that the Conservatives were putting the system up for sale.<\/p>\n

Asked Saturday whether Labour had somehow benefited from a Russian trolling operation, leader Jeremy Corbyn said<\/a>: \u201cThis is such nonsense. This is such an advanced state of rather belated conspiracy theories by the prime minister.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conservative minister Nicky Morgan told the BBC<\/a> it was \u201cextremely serious\u201d that the leaked documents might be linked to a Russian disinformation campaign, adding that \u201cactually as culture secretary, obviously one of the things that we are looking for and monitoring is any interference in our elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think we need to get to the bottom of that,\u201d Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Sky News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Labour sought to use the findings to push the government to release a report detailing Russian interference in U.K. elections, which the Conservatives said they wont do ahead of the upcoming election.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we want to get to the bottom of the extent to which the Russian state interferes in elections, can we please publish the intelligence and security committee report? Lets get that out there. That should have been published ages ago,\u201d Andy McDonald, the shadow transport secretary, told the BBC.<\/p>\n

In a statement outlining how it tied the latest campaign back to Russia<\/a>, Reddit said it believes the post was connected to similar disinformation efforts that Facebook discovered earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In an analysis of the earlieRead More \u2013 Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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