Cybersecurity
Facebook and Twitter to Testify on Russia as Google Is Spurned
- Committee rejected Google’s Walker as not high-ranking enough
- Facebook’s Sandberg and Twitter’s Dorsey preview their remarks
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Executives from Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. are expected to tell members of Congress that they have stepped up efforts to detect and remove accounts that violate their policies after Russian-linked hackers used social media to meddle in the 2016 election.
Facebook deleted more than 270 accounts in April linked to the Internet Research Agency, a so-called troll farm with links to Russia’s military intelligence unit, that company’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said in advanced testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee. These accounts are in addition to the 470 similar accounts and pages that Facebook removed between June 2015 and August 2017, she said.