In a remarkable one-two punch aimed at Russian hackers and trolls, the prime ministers of Britain and Spain separately accused Russian entities of meddling in European elections and have vowed to foil them.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy says an “avalanche” of bots spread “fake news” about Spain during Catalonia’s independence referendum last month and that Spanish authorities think that more than half of the originating accounts are in Russian territory.
British Prime Minister Theresa May accused Russia for attempting to “undermine free societies” and “sow discord” in Britain and among its Western allies by “deploying its state-run media organisations to plant fake stories.”
