The last I heard (3 days ago) parliamentary IT people had filtered out
77 000 allegedly fake signatures. For the most part no effort was made
to disguise the geographic source of the IP addresses - with thousands
of signatures, for example, from Vatican City.
Oxford’s Computational Propaganda project recently released a paper on
the role of bots on Twitter around #Brexit:
[ https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1606/1606.06356.pdf ]
The authors ( @pnhoward @bencekollanyi ) found that "less than 1
percent of sampled accounts generate almost a third of all the
messages".
Greg
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=409
On 30 June 2016 at 21:51,
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> If it's been hijacked then they have a good knowledge of social geography,
> judging by how the signers have been geographically distributed, consistent
> % proportion across the same sort of socio-demographic areas. That
> 'consistency' smells of reality to me.
>
> Dr Hillary J. Shaw
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SMART <[log in to unmask]>
> To: hillshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: CRIT-GEOG-FORUM <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thu, Jun 30, 2016 9:42 pm
> Subject: Re: Who's NOT signing the petition for a 2nd referendum
>
> I've seen reports today that the petition has been hacked by 4chan as a
> prank on the bbc and used bots / scripts etc to sign but even that could be
> a hoax.
>
> Has anyone else heard of this?
> Anita
>
> On 30 Jun 2016, at 19:48, [log in to unmask]
> wrote:
>
> http://petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com/?petition=131215
>
> This petition has now garnered 4,073,000 signatures. The accompanying
> choropleth map of where the signers come from is interesting. Especially the
> areas with fewest signatures. As one might expect, the C2DE areas have
> fewest (the White Working Class, the UKIP Blue collar, White face, Grey hair
> brigade). BUT suprisingly the non-White areas, like Luton, like the Black
> Country, like Leicester, like the Hounslow area (along with White w/class
> areas like the Weslh Valleys, the lower Thames estuary and Rhyl) are also
> not signing much.
>
> Surely the BME population should be wanting us to Remain, for free movement
> of people?
>
> Is this a 'drawbridge' effect, or do the BME low earners feel similarly to
> White low earners, .....or some other explanation?
>
> Dr Hillary J. Shaw
> Director and Senior Research Consultant
> Shaw Food Solutions
> Newport
> Shropshire
> TF10 8QE
> www.fooddeserts.org
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