Russian-backed UK leak dissemination plan discovered by Reddit
After a user on Reddit, a popular social media site, posted government documents leaked from the UK's trade negotiations with US officials, Reddit administrators noticed that several accounts were re-posting the documents in related forums, in a plan that upon further investigation seemed to have originated from the same Russian group identified by Facebook. The user and forum related to spreading the leaked documents were subsequently banned.
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