INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Leaked documents cited by Jeremy Corbyn are tied to a previous Russian disinformation campaign, according to internet discussion site
Reddit.The Labour leader used the classified documents detailing trade talks between US and UK officials as evidence of what he said were
"secret talks" to sell off the NHS."The uncensored documents leave Boris Johnson's denials in absolute tatters," Mr Corbyn told a news
conference last week.Image:Labour says the documents show the NHS is part of post-Brexit trade talks - something the PM strongly deniesThe
prime minister dismissed the claims as "total nonsense" and his party said the Labour leader had misrepresented the documents and quoted
sections out of context.The documents first appeared in a post on Reddit in October and the site has now said it believes it is "part of a
campaign that has been reported as originating from Russia".It said it had also identified more accounts which had used "vote manipulation"
to promote the original post.Reddit said the accounts "have the same shared pattern" as a Russian campaign found on Facebook earlier this
year, dubbed "Secondary Infektion".More from General Election 2019The site has banned one subreddit and 61 accounts "under our policies
against vote manipulation and misuse of the platform".Sky's technology correspondent Rowland Manthorpe says it is not known if the leaked
documents were hacked or obtained by the Russian group - only that they were trying to "amplify" their visibility.He said what the Russians
have been doing "isn't disinformation, because so far as we know the documents are legit".Manthorpe added: "Labour needs to take this
seriously - because, however tenuously, this is increasingly looking like foreign interference in the UK election."Earlier this week,
experts - including researchers from Oxford and Cardiff universities - also suggested the Reddit leak was linked to the Russian Secondary
Infektion campaign.A government spokesperson said: "Online platforms should take responsibility for content posted on them, and we welcome
the action Reddit have taken today."The UK government was already looking into the matter, with support from the National Cyber Security
Centre (NCSC)."We do not comment on leaks, and it would be inappropriate to comment further."Highlights from the final campaign debateLabour
has again refused to discuss where it obtained the documents but maintains they reveal a damaging picture of Mr Johnson's intentions."These
documents reveal the plot against our NHS," said a spokesman."And of course neither the UK nor the US government have denied their
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