{"id":9415,"date":"2017-09-28T17:51:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T17:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/twitter-is-briefing-congress-today-in-election-probe.html"},"modified":"2017-09-28T17:51:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T17:51:42","slug":"twitter-is-briefing-congress-today-in-election-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/twitter-is-briefing-congress-today-in-election-probe.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter is briefing Congress today in election probe"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Congressional investigations into Russia\u2019s role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election are looking at the spread of misinformation on a number of online services \u2014 not just Facebook.<\/p>\n

In fact, Twitter is meeting with Congressional staffers today. Recode\u2019s Tony Romm says<\/a> Twitter\u2019s Vice President of Policy Colin Corwell is currently in a closed-door meeting with the Senate Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n

According to Politico<\/a>, Senate investigators are going to be asking questions about how tweets contributed to news coverage, how tweets may have driven up Google rankings of fake news and, \u201cWhat, if anything, did Twitter do to address <\/b>bots once it had identified them as potentially malicious?\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, a number<\/a> of publications<\/a> have reported<\/a> that the Senate Committee is asking Facebook, Twitter and Google to testify at a hearing on November 1.<\/p>\n

Most of the recent discussion around Russia\u2019s online activity has focused on Facebook (among other things, this has prompted Facebook to announce new transparency measures around ad-buying<\/a>), but new research suggests that Russia is quite active on Twitter, too.<\/p>\n

For example, the Alliance for Securing Democracy says that since last month, it has been following 600 Twitter accounts<\/a> \u2014 some operated by bots, some by humans \u2014 tied to Russian operations. They\u2019re not, however, simply supporting President Donald Trump. In fact, in the recent controversy around Trump and N.F.L. players<\/a>, the accounts ended up posting messages on opposing sides of the debate.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also new research from Oxford University<\/a> which found that 20 percent of tweets sampled from around the election included \u201cpolarizing and conspiracy content,\u201d including content from Wikileaks and Russian sources. The greatest concentration of that content was in swing states like New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and North Carolina.<\/p>\n

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Featured Image: Image by Erik Pronske Photography\/Getty Images<\/small><\/p>\n

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