Tag: 677775

20 JAN

Twitter begins emailing the 677,775 Americans who took Russian election bait

Enlarge / Maybe Twitter should try this approach for the 677,775 emails it says it will soon send to affected users. (credit: Warner Bros. / Sam Machkovech) On Friday, Twitter took an end-of-the-week opportunity to dump some better-late-than-never news onto its userbase. For anybody who followed or engaged with a Twitter account that faked like […]

19 JAN

Twitter is emailing 677,775 people in the US who interacted with Russian propaganda in the 2016 election (TWTR)

Twitter will email 677,775 users in the US to let them know that they interacted with Russian propaganda during the 2016 US presidential election. All of those users either followed an account, liked or retweeted content associated with the Internet Research Agency (IRA) — an organization associated with Russian propaganda efforts. In total, Twitter believes […]