Twitter to Alert Users Who May Have Seen Russian-Linked Content
- Facebook, Twitter, Google cite their improved monitoring
- Lawmakers cite past failures they say inspired violence
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Twitter Inc. will inform users who may have seen posts covertly crafted by Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign, the company’s director of U.S. public policy told a Senate committee Wednesday.
The company is “working to identify and inform individually the users” who could have come across accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency, which aided Russian efforts to meddle in the race, Carlos Monje told the Commerce, Science and Technology Committee.