Twitter informed congressional investigators Thursday that it removed roughly 200 accounts that were linked with Russian interference in the 2016 election, and said a Kremlin-backed news outlet spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads.
“Of the roughly 450 accounts that Facebook recently shared as a part of their review, we concluded that 22 had corresponding accounts on Twitter. All of those identified accounts had already been or immediately were suspended from Twitter for breaking our rules,” Twitter announced in Thursday afternoon blog post.
“In addition, from those accounts we found an additional 179 related or linked accounts, and took action on the ones we found in violation of our rules.”
Twitter revealed Russia Today spent $274,100 in U.S. ads in 2016 promoting “1,823 Tweets that definitely or potentially targeted the U.S. market.”
On Thursday, Colin Crowell, Twitter’s vice president for public policy, met with the Senate and House intelligence committees amid their separate investigations into Russia’s efforts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election, especially on social media.
Twitter, like Facebook, has been called to meet with the congressional panels to brief investigators on what Russian activity on their respective platforms looked like.
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Twitter tells Congress Russia Today spent $274,000 on ads in 2016 https://t.co/bvUuRpdJUZ pic.twitter.com/WpOJA6B5qT
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) September 28, 2017
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