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Five categories, never conflated

The recorded numbers do not reflect the votes cast.

Unequal media access, repression, illegal financing, vote buying, misuse of state resources.

Cyberattacks, hack-and-leak, covert foreign financing, impersonation of media or institutions by a foreign state or proxy.

Troll farms, fake local-media networks, covert political ads, coordinated inauthentic amplification — foreign or domestic.

Patterns in the data worth examining — explicitly not proof of fraud.

A finding sits in exactly one category. Colors and icons carry the same meaning everywhere on the site.

From the case files

The clearest test of a trustworthy record is whether it can hold both statements at once.

Foreign interferenceCorroborated
In December 2023 the NCSC attributed the compromise through which UK-US trade documents were acquired to the group it calls Star Blizzard — known at the time of the 2019 leak as Callisto Group or Seaborgium — and assesses is almost certainly subordinate to the Russian FSB's Centre 18.
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Information operationsCorroborated
The UK government assessed that Russian actors almost certainly sought to interfere by amplifying the illicitly acquired trade documents online before the election.
Sources:1

Information operationsAlleged
A broader Russian campaign against the election is not established: the government stated it had found no evidence of a broad-spectrum campaign, and said the documents initially received little or no traction before further promotion attempts. This is an absence of evidence reported in 2020, not a forensic refutation.
Sources:1
Result falsificationDebunked
The documented activity concerned stolen documents and online amplification, not access to ballots, local counts or the official result.
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