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Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog
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Re the yarn on politicaluk by @TomMcTague. I wonder what the purposes of these subdomains are? The site uses Wordpress. Any of those sub domains sound familiar to anyone?
cc @donie @PeterTanham . They're using the typical set of components too.
Google id: ua-118181108. They also registered politicaluk.com, which redirects.
Similar look domain, might well be unconnected, registered with google domains.
The Facebook page was called "NewsBits" in a prior life. And was created on January 4.
Became Political UK News on May 2.
newsbits no longer operational, same server provider though.
Newsbits stuff from Jan this year. Similar content in nature.
First tweet I could find linking to Newsbits (Dec 2017). This account tweeted links to newsbits quite a bit.
This account also tweeted lots of links
That's an interesting tweet to follower ratio.
Account created June 2017, so earliest I date so far I can identify.
First twitter account followed (not withstanding possible unfollows) Katie Hopkins.
However their Facebook account links to this dormant twitter acc
Of course, as soon as you go down this rabbit hole on Facebook, it's hard to come back. For example: Battle For Britain
131k fans. It's just a "social club" though.
Note this. This is oddly written.Confusion between Britain and the UK. The Twitter acc is called "Britain United" whatever that means.
Page history goes back as far as 2012.
Primary country location of people who manage this Page includes:
United Kingdom (15 people)
Belgium (1 person)
Philippines (1 person)
Ukraine (1 person)
hmmm 🤔
Pretty clear that "British Voice" is run by the same people. 136,000 fans.
Unless it's a coincidence they all are in the same countries as the earlier page.
Page history back to 2010.
Anti EU out. 128k fans. Started in 2013.
And guess what? Same people. That's at least 3 pages, each with 130k fans (no doubt overlapping to some degree) run by two dozen people (no idea who they are yet). Highly polarised content.
Terrible English here again.

"We support national sovereignty. We support the people of Europe, who in growing numbers are calling for a return of their sovereignty, away Brussels and the emerging EU super state."

"away Brussels?" A common mistake for non native speakers.
Here's another one, looks like same people. "UK Keep Britain United". It looks like these might have been Scottish referendum pages, transformed into pro Brexit.
This one has 74k fans. Clear connection to Scotland ref. Same pattern of admins.
So:

probritish - 136k fans
BritU1 - 75k fans
AntiEUNet - 125k fans
britu2 - 130k fans

Are run by the same group of two dozen people, who clearly overlap. No idea who they are. That's nearly half a million combined fans (with definite overlap).
And I'm just poking around on my lunch break. Imagine if someone did this for a living?
Suggestion for @robleathern. It would help if we had a "other pages managed by these admins" feature. Would save me lots of clicks. This opacity helps no one.
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