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# Incident I00005: Brexit vote
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* **Summary:** In early 2014, then UK PM David Cameron outlined the changes he aimed to bring about in the EU and in the UK's relationship with it. These were: additional immigration controls, especially for citizens of new EU member states; tougher immigration rules for present EU citizens; new powers for national parliaments collectively to veto proposed EU laws; new free-trade agreements and a reduction in bureaucracy for businesses; a lessening of the influence of the European Court of Human Rights on British police and courts; more power for individual member states, and less for the central EU; and abandonment of the EU notion of "ever closer union".He intended to bring these about during a series of negotiations with other EU leaders and then, if re-elected, to announce a referendum.
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European Union Referendum Act was passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It extended to include and take legislative effect in Gibraltar,and received royal assent on 17 December 2015.
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Conservative-led Department for Culture, Media and Sport select committee concluded (2018) Russia engaged in ‘unconventional warfare’ during the Brexit campaign. This included ‘156,252 Russian accounts tweeting about #Brexit’ and posting ‘over 45,000 Brexit messages in the last 48 hours of the campaign.’ As it said, Kremlin-controlled media, ‘RT and Sputnik had more reach on Twitter for anti-EU content than either Vote Leave or Leave.EU, during the referendum campaign’.
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The report by Democrats on the Senate foreign relations committee, titled Putin’s asymmetric assault on democracy in Russia and Europe: implications for US national security, pinpoints the way in which UK campaign finance laws do not require disclosure of political donations if they are from “the beneficial owners of non-British companies that are incorporated in the EU and carry out business in the UK”.
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The senators point out that Ukip and its then-leader, Nigel Farage, did not just fan anti-EU sentiment but also “criticised European sanctions on Russia, and provided flattering assessments of Russian President Putin”.
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The report adds that although officially the Russian government asserted its neutrality on Brexit, its English-language media outlets RT and Sputnik covered the referendum campaign extensively and offered ‘’systematically one-sided coverage’’.
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* **incident type**: campaign
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* **Year started:** 2016.0
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* **Countries:** Russia , UK
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* **Found via:**
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* **Date added:** 2019-02-24
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| Technique | Description given for this incident |
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| [T0007 Create Inauthentic Social Media Pages and Groups](../../generated_pages/techniques/T0007.md) | IT00000011 Fake FB groups + dark content |
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| [T0010 Cultivate Ignorant Agents](../../generated_pages/techniques/T0010.md) | IT00000016 cultivate, manipulate, exploit useful idiots |
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| [T0018 Purchase Targeted Advertisements](../../generated_pages/techniques/T0018.md) | IT00000010 Targeted FB paid ads |
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| [T0029 Online Polls](../../generated_pages/techniques/T0029.md) | IT00000013 manipulate social media "online polls"? |
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| [T0046 Use Search Engine Optimisation](../../generated_pages/techniques/T0046.md) | IT00000022 SEO optimisation/manipulation ("key words") |
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| [T0057 Organise Events](../../generated_pages/techniques/T0057.md) | IT00000012 Digital to physical "organize+promote" rallies & events? |
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