45000条帖子被已经使得这场公投达到一个争议的顶峰

Russian Twitter accounts posted almost 45,000 messages about Brexit in 48 hours during last year’s referendum in an apparently co-ordinated attempt to sow discord, The Times can reveal.

根据英国《泰晤士报》披露，俄罗斯在去年脱欧公投的48小时内推送了几乎45000份帖子，这些帖子一致的试图散播分离主义

More than 150,000 accounts based in Russia, which had previously confined their posts to subjects such as the Ukrainian conflict, switched attention to Brexit in the days leading up to last year’s vote, according to research for an upcoming paper by data scientists at Swansea University and the University of California, Berkeley.

根据斯旺西大学加利福利亚大学和的数据科学家们即将发表的调查显示，有超过150000的账户位于俄罗斯，这些账户之前也推送过关于乌克兰冲突事件这类的帖子，而他们已经转移注意力为去年的脱欧公投做准备

Russian activity spiked on June 23, the day of the referendum, and on June 24 when the result was announced. From posting fewer than 1,000 tweets a day before June 13, the accounts — many of which are virulently pro-Putin — posted 39,000 tweets on June 24 before dropping off almost entirely.

俄罗斯的特殊机构在6.23到6.24公投结期间非常活跃，直到结果被公布。那些账户从6.13前的每天推送超过1000帖子，到6.24号当天那些狂热的普京支持者们推送了39000帖子，在他们完全销声匿迹之前。

Many of the messages appear to have come either from bots — fully automated accounts set up to post hundreds of tweets a day — or from “cyborg” accounts which are heavily automated but have some human involvement. Analysis suggests that the tweets were viewed hundreds of millions of times.

显而易见，许多消息要么来源于那种被设置成每天全自动发文的账户，要么来自那种半自动，其中掺杂了一些人为干扰的账户 ，有分析报告指出，那些帖子已经被浏览了无数遍了

Most of the tweets seen by this newspaper encouraged people to vote for Brexit, an outcome which Russia would have regarded as destabilising for the European Union. A number were proRemain, however, suggesting that theRussian goal may have been simply to sow division. “This is the most significant evidence yet of interference by Russian-backed social media accounts around the Brexit referendum,” said Damian Collins, the Tory MP who chairs the digital, culture, media and sport select committee. “The content published and promoted by these accounts is clearly designed to increase tensions throughout the country and undermine our democratic process. I fear that this may well be just the tip of the iceberg.”

大部分的帖子可以在那些鼓励人们为脱欧而投票的报刊上看到，俄罗斯认为这样可以动摇欧盟的稳定，一些人也许持保留态度，但，事实证明俄罗斯散播分离主义的目的已经轻松地达到了，主管数字，文化媒体和运动选举委员会的国会议员Damian Collins说，这就是俄罗斯背后支持的社交媒体干扰公投的最明显的证据，那些被发表和推广的内容是设计用来增加整个国家不安并且破坏我们的民主进程，我甚至担心这只是冰山下的一角（还有更大的图谋）

未完待续。。。。。