IN THIS PODCAST: CBS Tech Correspondent,
Larry Magid
, joins IT2 to talk about the new news of Twitter cracking down on Russian bots!
Twitter has identified an additional 1,062 accounts linked to the Russian agency accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the company announced Friday night. In a blog post, Twitter said it has suspended all of the accounts for violating the site’s terms of service and has handed over the accounts to Congress.
Ahead of Congressional hearings in October, Twitter initially said it had found roughly 2,700 accounts affiliated with the election interference. Twitter previously said automated accounts were responsible for 1.4 million election-related tweets that received 288 million views.
Twitter said it will email 677,775 users in the U.S. who liked or retweeted messages from Russian-linked accounts to let them know the accounts had spread misinformation or divisive messages, CNET reports.
Since the company began its investigation, it said it found a total of 3,814 IRA-linked accounts that sent approximately 175,993 tweets and said 8.4 percent of the tweets were related to the election in the time period they investigated. Twitter also found 13,512 Russian-linked bots, or automated accounts, making a total of 50,258 automated accounts.
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