Latest Breaking News

DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Sat Jan 20, 2018, 06:05 PM Jan 2018

Twitter informs Cornyn he interacted with Russia-linked content during 2016 election

Source: The Hill

BY BRANDON CARTER - 01/20/18 04:05 PM EST

Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), the No. 2 Senate Republican, posted an email he received from Twitter on Saturday indicating that he interacted with content from Russian-linked Twitter accounts that attempted to influence the 2016 presidential election.

-snip-

Cornyn shared a screenshot of the email with his followers on Saturday.

Link to tweet

Twitter announced on Friday that it suspended 1,062 new accounts it found to be linked to the Internet Research Agency.

In total, the company has found 3,814 Internet Research Agency-linked accounts, which posted 175,993 tweets during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/369943-twitter-informs-cornyn-he-interacted-with-russia-linked-content-during-2016

7 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Twitter informs Cornyn he interacted with Russia-linked content during 2016 election (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2018 OP

So he admits that he shared Russian propaganda BumRushDaShow Jan 2018 #1

Social Media Is Waking Up to Manipulation of Public Opinion? Leith Jan 2018 #2

Social media is to blame partially for the BS BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #3

What a fool ... errr ... tool UpInArms Jan 2018 #4

Cornyn cornholes America everyday he is in Washington... pbmus Jan 2018 #5

"All of us need to step up to meet this challenge, especially the Press." Hey, Dumbbell! mpcamb Jan 2018 #6

#TwitterTraitor n/t Julian Englis Jan 2018 #7

BumRushDaShow

(130,061 posts)

1. So he admits that he shared Russian propaganda

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 06:54 PM

Jan 2018

and then goes on blame "social media" and "the Press" for the problem.

Leith

(7,817 posts)

2. Social Media Is Waking Up to Manipulation of Public Opinion?

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 07:25 PM

Jan 2018

When the hell is HE going to wake up to the fact that HE has been manipulated?

Doddering old fool...

BigmanPigman

(51,674 posts)

3. Social media is to blame partially for the BS

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 07:34 PM

Jan 2018

that many morons believe to be gospel. It has not been corrected by Fuckerberg or Twitter and it will continue to be used by Russian bots, trolls, GOP, etc to control the clueless sheep like Cornyn and many American voters throughout the midterms. $$$$$$$ makes social media complicit.