Fake Twitter accounts targeting EU referendum 'co-ordinated by Russia'

Fake Twitter accounts created by a Russian propaganda unit made a determined, co-ordinated attempt to interfere during the EU referendum, Sky News can reveal.A detailed analysis of Twitter accounts identified by the US senate as being linked to the Kremlin shows this activity before, during and after the Brexit vote in 2016.The analysis was carried out by Yin Yin Lu, a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute.