The House of Commons petition panel has already discarded 77,000 signatures found to be fake. Thousands of signatures came from unlikely destinations like the Vatican City, Antarctica, North Korea, and the South Sandwich Islands. Many of these may have been added by automated bots in the absence of a bot-filtering mechanism on the petition website. Security expert: “It seems like a huge oversight for a website designed to be used by so many people to lack simple protection” The committee says it is continuing to monitor the website.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/analytics/bots-sign-online-petition-for-second-eu-referendum-post-brexit