Saturday 20 January 2018

Twitter to tell 677,775 people they interacted with Kremlin-linked trolls

Twitter to tell 677,775 people they interacted with Kremlin-linked trolls

Twitter will inform nearly 700,000 people in the U.S. that they either followed a Kremlin-linked troll account, or retweeted or liked a tweet sent by one of the accounts, the social media company said Friday. The company last year identified thousands of Twitter accounts associated with the Internet Research Agency, a Russian government-linked troll army in St. Petersburg that worked to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and to promote chaos and division in American society more generally.
Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/19/media/twitter-internet-research-agency-accounts/index.html?source=Snapzu

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