British electoral system unprepared to resist foreign interference, officials say

With an election looming, Britain does not have time to implement measures to resist the sort of social media and "fake news" campaigns involving suspected foreign actors that have affected some Western nations, officials say.In the wake of the 2016 referendum in which British voters decided by 52 to 48 percent to leave the European Union, defeated pro-EU campaigners and some experts alleged that misleading social media messaging and disinformation circulated by Russia had influenced the referen