According to an article in InFacts:
The latest evidence of Russian meddling in the [Brexit] referendum . . . is damning.
First, over 150,000 Russia-based Twitter accounts switched their attention to Brexit in the final days of the referendum, according to an upcoming paper by Swansea University and the University of California, Berkeley. They posted more than 45,000 messages about Brexit in 48 hours as the campaign reached its peak, compared to fewer than 1,000 per day before June 13. The tweets were viewed hundreds of millions of times, The Times says.
Second, City University researchers have uncovered a coordinated network of Twitter “bots” comprising over 13,000 accounts, which came out of nowhere to post 65,000 tweets about the referendum. One of the influential accounts that these automated bots retweeted was probably a Russian propaganda account, according to The Times.
Third, over 400 fake Twitter accounts believed to be run from a St Petersburg based “troll farm” published posts about Brexit, according to Edinburgh University researchers. The Internet Research Agency (IRA) employs hundreds of bloggers round the clock to flood Russian internet forums, social networks and the comments’ sections of western publications. It has been linked to a businessman who was once Vladimir Putin’s favourite chef, according to the Guardian.
The Russian president told Bloomberg in September 2016 that Brexit would lead to a smaller EU. Putin has always resented having to deal with the EU and insisted that only bilateral relations mattered for Russia. A former US ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, said the Brexit vote was “a giant victory for Putin’s foreign policy objectives.”
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Putin's playing a global game of "Last Man Standing," and he's winning.
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