Twitter says the number of users who may have interacted with Russian content intended to influence the election is now 1.4 million.
The company provided the updated figure, more than double the 650,000 users the company notified initially, on Wednesday.
The new figures include users who engaged with or followed Russian accounts, as well as people who don’t receive Twitter emails and can’t be notified that they were affected.
As of Jan. 29, Twitter had notified around 650,000 people who had liked or retweeted content from Russian-linked accounts trying to influence the election.
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The company’s announcement that it expanded the number of people notified comes after criticism from prominent Democrats, including the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.), and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The two Democrats criticized Twitter earlier Wednesday, saying the company had not provided a complete response to their questions about a potential Russian bot campaign. Democrats believe Russian bots are pushing #ReleaseTheMemo, which is encouraging the release of a controversial GOP House Intelligence Committee memo allegedly detailing improper surveillance of Trump campaign associates.
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JUST IN: Twitter says 1.4 million people may have interacted with Russia-linked accounts https://t.co/1tqYalqPiy pic.twitter.com/JUccpkE77W
— The Hill (@thehill) January 31, 2018
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