Twitter just provided another line of evidence that Russians were quite aggressive with their attempts to influence on the 2016 election.
Twitter revealed in a blog post on Tuesday that it had discovered about 200 accounts linked to Russia and that 22 of them might have been from the same entities that shared fake news and memes on Facebook. Twitter also met with congressional investigators on Thursday to discuss Russian activity on its platform.
This development comes more than a month after Facebook revealed it found 450 profiles linked to Russia that had spent roughly $100,000 on 3,000 ads. Mark Zuckerberg's company has faced growing scrutiny for its role in influencing the 2016 election and has been working to cooperate with the government over the Russia investigation. Read more...
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