President Trump-Russia Election Probe: Twitter Suspends Hundreds Of Russia-linked Accounts

Twitter has announced that it had suspended about 200 Russian-linked accounts as it probes online efforts to meddle with the 2016 U.S. election. However, Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, who summoned Twitter officials to testify behind closed doors on Thursday as part of broad investigation of Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election said Twitter officials had not answered many questions about Russian use of the platform and that it was still subject to foreign manipulation.Warner continued that the company’s presentation to the Intelligence Committee “showed an enormous lack of understanding from the Twitter team of how serious this issue is.” He took particular umbrage at what he said was Twitter’s decision to largely confine its review to accounts linked to fake profiles already spotted by Facebook. Twitter said it had identified and removed 22 accounts directly linked to about 500 fake Facebook pages or profiles tied to Russia and that it unearthed an additional 179 accounts that were otherwise related.Photo Credit: Getty

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