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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHave YOU received an email from Twitter?
Update on Twitters Review of the 2016 U.S. ElectionBy Twitter PublicPolicy
Friday, 19 January 2018
When we appeared before the United States Congress last fall, Twitter publicly committed to regularly updating both congressional committees and the public on findings from our ongoing review into events surrounding the 2016 U.S. election.
Twitter is committed to providing a platform that fosters healthy civic discourse and democratic debate. We have been cooperating with congressional investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. We have committed to be as transparent as possible about sharing what we have learned through our retroactive investigation into activity related to the election.
Since we presented our findings to Congress last fall, we have updated our analysis and continue to look for patterns and signals in data. Today, we are sharing an update on several aspects of that ongoing work, as well as steps we are taking to continue to make progress against potential manipulation of our platform.
Informing People of Malicious Activity in the 2016 Election
As previously announced, we identified and suspended a number of accounts that were potentially connected to a propaganda effort by a Russian government-linked organization known as the Internet Research Agency (IRA).
Consistent with our commitment to transparency, we are emailing notifications to 677,775 people in the United States who followed one of these accounts or retweeted or liked a Tweet from these accounts during the election period. Because we have already suspended these accounts, the relevant content on Twitter is no longer publicly available.
https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/2016-election-update.html
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Have YOU received an email from Twitter? (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jan 2018
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doc03
(35,538 posts)1. Don't do Twitter or Facebook nt
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)2. I have received plenty of emails from them- but not that one. I am looking forward to checking
My friends FB account to show him how much Russian shit he posted last year. One of these days!
kydo
(2,679 posts)3. No. But the High school band site I set up is getting spammed by russians.
For real! I know it's russian because the damn things are written in russian.
LeftInTX
(26,061 posts)4. K & R