Reddit bans accounts for suspected Russia meddling in UK elections

Bloomberg

Reddit said it was banning 61 accounts over suspected Russia-led meddling in the run-up to the UK’s December 12 election involving leaked trade documents.The social platform said the accounts violated its policies against vote manipulation and platform misuse.
Reddit said its investigation occurred after Facebook discovered a Russian campaign on its network earlier this year dubbed “Secondary Infektion.” More recent accounts on Reddit bear similarities to that campaign, “causing us to believe that this was indeed tied to the original group,” the social news and aggregation network said.
“Suspect accounts on Reddit were recently reported to us, along with indicators from law enforcement, and we were able to confirm that they did indeed show a pattern of coordination,” Reddit said. The banned accounts would be preserved for a time so that they could be scrutinised by researchers and the public, Reddit said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that there were no grounds for the accusations against Russia.
The accounts were removed after social media research firm published a blog on
December 2.