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Democrats rebuke Twitter for 'frankly inadequate' response to Russian meddling
Source: The Guardian
Democrats rebuke Twitter for 'frankly inadequate' response to Russian meddling
• Senator Mark Warner condemns Twitter’s ‘enormous lack of understanding’
• Twitter suspends 201 accounts tied to Russia-linked sources
Lauren Gambino in Washington
Thursday 28 September 2017 23.58 BST
Twitter has suspended 201 accounts tied to Russian-linked sources that posted political ads on Facebook during the 2016 presidential election, officials from the social media giant told congressional investigators on Thursday.
Top Democrats, however, said they were disappointed by Twitter’s briefing to congressional investigators and questioned the company’s commitment to investigating Russian use of its platform to influence the US vote.
Senator Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, who was among those briefed, said Twitter displayed an “enormous lack of understanding” and called its presentation to his panel “frankly inadequate on almost every level”.
Warner accused Twitter of failing to grasp “how serious this issue is, the threat it poses to democratic institutions and again begs many more questions than they offered”.
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• Senator Mark Warner condemns Twitter’s ‘enormous lack of understanding’
• Twitter suspends 201 accounts tied to Russia-linked sources
Lauren Gambino in Washington
Thursday 28 September 2017 23.58 BST
Twitter has suspended 201 accounts tied to Russian-linked sources that posted political ads on Facebook during the 2016 presidential election, officials from the social media giant told congressional investigators on Thursday.
Top Democrats, however, said they were disappointed by Twitter’s briefing to congressional investigators and questioned the company’s commitment to investigating Russian use of its platform to influence the US vote.
Senator Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, who was among those briefed, said Twitter displayed an “enormous lack of understanding” and called its presentation to his panel “frankly inadequate on almost every level”.
Warner accused Twitter of failing to grasp “how serious this issue is, the threat it poses to democratic institutions and again begs many more questions than they offered”.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/28/twitter-congress-russian-election-interference