UPDATED: Twitter finds hundreds of accounts tied to Russian operatives
Last edited Thu Sep 28, 2017, 07:31 PM - Edit history (1)
Source: The Washington Post
By Elizabeth Dwoskin and Adam Entous September 28 at 3:57 PM
Twitter has shut down 201 accounts that were tied to the same Russian operatives who posted thousands of political ads on Facebook, the company told congressional investigators Thursday and revealed in a blog in the afternoon.
The company also found three accounts from the news site RT — which Twitter linked to the Kremlin — that spent $274,100 in ads on Twitter’s platform in 2016.
The meeting between the company and Congressional investigators is part of a widening government probe into how Russian operatives used Facebook, Google, Twitter and other social media platforms to sow division and disinformation during the 2016 campaign. Those companies are under increasing pressure from Capitol Hill to investigate Russian meddling on their platforms and are facing the possibility of new regulations that could impact their massive advertising businesses.
The Twitter accounts, which were taken down over the last month, were associated with 470 accounts and pages that Facebook last month said came from the International Research Agency, a Russia-connect troll farm. Twitter said the groups on Facebook had 22 corresponding Twitter accounts. Twitter then found an additional 179 accounts linked to those 22.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/twitter-finds-hundreds-of-accounts-tied-to-russian-operatives/2017/09/28/6cf26f7e-a484-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa_story.html
UPDATE:
Top Intel Dem: Twitter’s Disclosures Were ‘Inadequate on Almost Every Level’
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called Twitter’s presentation to the committee’s staff “inadequate on almost every level,” stressing that it was “deeply disappointing.” Warner said representatives from the social media giant showed “an enormous lack of understanding of how serious this issue is, the threat it poses to democratic institutions, and begs many more questions than they offered.” Twitter revealed after the meeting with the committee that Russian-linked Facebook accounts also had corresponding Twitter accounts that they used for the purposes of spreading propaganda and misinformation.
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They've known about it for years. Never did a thing until they got called out by the media.
If only the media had been doing their jobs LAST YEAR.
