Social networking sites Facebook and Twitter have agreed to share information with Britain about whether or not Russia was engaged in social networking campaigns by sponsoring the 'Precise' vote referendum on Britain's withdrawal from the EU in 2016.
Facebook believes it can answer questions sent by the UK Election Commission in mid-December.
The Commission is investigating the social networking activities in the pre-polling period.
The investigation is underway in the US presidential election whether Russia has been interfering with the social networking campaign.
The two social networking companies have made a statement on the website of Britain's Internet, Culture, Media and Parliamentary Committee Chairman Damian Collins,
Simon Milner, the director of Facebook's policy class, says that he is considering how best to respond to the group's request.
He said that Facebook is committed to help in extensive investigations into fake news.
Nick Pickles, general director of Twitter for Britain, said they had identified suspiciously 32 lakh accounts per week, as well as doubling 4.5 million sign-ups everyday.
At the same time, all the 'automatic' accounts were not bad, he tweeted about air pollution and an automated internet traps (pots) for editing Wikipedia pages.
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