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July 29, 2018, 13:34 London, July 29 (Prensa Latina) The United Kingdom Parliament unveiled a campaign of false news against the government of President Cristina Fernández, aimed at influencing the October elections 2015, MP Mauricio Macri was elected.
Conservative lawmaker Damian Collins, chairman of this parliamentary committee, recently warned that the UK is facing a crisis of democracy due to the systematic manipulation of data in cyberspace. the behavior of the citizens, through misinformation campaigns.
According to the report, three years ago, the board of directors of SCL, headquarter of the consulting firm interviewed Cambridge Analytica, approved a media operation against the Argentine president
The document states that May 27, 2015 was held a meeting at which the war of information against the Argentine government was discussed. through tactics of espionage with the employment of retired intelligence officers.
The use of fake accounts on Facebook and Twitter for misinformation was part of the campaign against Cristina Fernández designed by SCL, which recently closed part of its operations to the World following the scandal around Cambridge Analytica .
This company illegally obtained via Facebook information on more than 50 million Facebook social network users with whom generated actions of political influence to promote Donald Trump's presidential campaign, in the elections of November 2016 in the United States. [19659003] They also used this data to support the UK referendum victory in June 2016 of those who supported the country's exit from the European Union.
In February of this year, the Office of the Information Commissioner of the United Kingdom (ICO) began investigating Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.
On July 11 last Elizabeth Denham, head of the ICO, announced the imposition of a fine on Facebook that could rise to 500 thousand euros, for violation of the law British data protection and failed to adequately protect the privacy of its users.
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