Twitter finds over 1,000 new Russian-linked accounts (total 50,000+)

Source: The Hill | January 19, 2018 | Ali Breland

Twitter says it has suspended 1,062 new accounts it has found to be linked to the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian “troll farm” which disseminated content intended to interfere in U.S. political process.

In total, the company has found 3,814 IRA-linked accounts, which posted 175,993 tweets during the 2016 presidential election.

Twitter says that it also found 13,512 new Kremlin-linked bot accounts, bringing the total amount of bots it has found in connection to Russian election influence efforts to 50,258.

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Twitter finds over 1,000 new Russian-linked accounts (total 50,000+)