Bogus Brexit murder plot and other lies planted online by Russian accounts -study

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.The effort employed scores of accounts posting in at least six languages on platforms including Facebook and Twitter, as well as multiple other blogging sites and forums.The aim was to "divide, discredit, and distract" Western countries by planting false information about topics ranging from alleged British meddling