Twitter, With Accounts Linked to Russia, to Face Congress Over Role in Election

Twitter, With Accounts Linked to Russia, to Face Congress Over Role in Election

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https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/27/twitter-with-accounts-linked-to-russia-to-face-congress-over-role-in-election.html

After a weekend when Americans took to social media to debate President Trump's admonishment of N.F.L. players who do not stand for the national anthem, a network of Twitter accounts suspected of links to Russia seized on both sides of the issue with hashtags such as #boycottnfl, #standforouranthem and #takeaknee.

As Twitter prepared to brief staff members of the Senate and House intelligence committees on Thursday for their investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, researchers from a public policy group have been following hundreds of accounts to track the continuing Russian operations to influence social media discourse and foment division in the United States.

Twitter, With Accounts Linked to Russia, to Face Congress Over Role in Election

Sep 28, 2017, 2:13am UTC
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/27/twitter-with-accounts-linked-to-russia-to-face-congress-over-role-in-election.html >After a weekend when Americans took to social media to debate President Trump's admonishment of N.F.L. players who do not stand for the national anthem, a network of Twitter accounts suspected of links to Russia seized on both sides of the issue with hashtags such as #boycottnfl, #standforouranthem and #takeaknee. >As Twitter prepared to brief staff members of the Senate and House intelligence committees on Thursday for their investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, researchers from a public policy group have been following hundreds of accounts to track the continuing Russian operations to influence social media discourse and foment division in the United States.