Cybersecurity
Twitter Blasted for ‘Inadequate’ Response to Suspicious Election Activity
- Company’s Senate presentation called ‘inadequate’ by Democrat
- Russian network paid $274,100 for U.S. ads on Twitter in 2016
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A top Senate Democrat blasted Twitter Inc. for a “deeply disappointing” presentation into suspicious Russian activity on its network during the 2016 U.S. election as the company disclosed some of its findings for the first time.
"Their response was frankly inadequate on almost every level," Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee told reporters Thursday. “There is a lot more work they have to do.”