Report: Twitter Was Possibly Used 'More Extensively Than Facebook in Russian Influence Campaign'
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Facebook has lately been taking plenty of heat for its use during the U.S. presidential election cycle by Kremlin-aligned groups to spread false information about Hillary Clinton and pro-Trump messagesbut now Twitter is facing fresh scrutiny for the same reasons.
A story on the front page of this morning’s New York Times under the headline “Twitter Seen as Key Battlefield In Russian Influence Campaign”tweaked for the web to “Twitter, With Accounts Linked to Russia, to Face Congress Over Role in Election”reports on new research conducted by the Alliance for Securing Democracy, “a bipartisan initiative of the German Marshall Fund, a public policy research group in Washington.” Daisuke Wakabayashi and Scott Shane of the Times write that,
Twitter may have been used even more extensively than Facebook in the Russian influence campaign last year. In addition to Russia-linked Twitter accounts that posed as Americans, the platform was also used for large-scale automated messaging, using “bot” accounts to spread false stories and promote news articles about emails from Democratic operatives that had been obtained by Russian hackers.
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