During the ten weeks leading up to the 2016 election, these accounts posted 175,993 tweets, roughly 8.4 percent of which were election-related. Twitter also identified 13,512 Russia-based bot accounts, for a total of 50,258. In all (again, according to Twitter), 677,775 users in the United States interacted …
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… of Cybersecurity Policy Nathaniel Gleicher tells Donie O’Sullivan how the tech giant is trying to solve its troll problem and avoid a repeat of 2016.
Source: Exclusive: Is Facebook doing enough to stop election meddling?
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that 2017 was “the best year” for conservatives in his decades long career in Washington. “The best year on all fronts, and a lot of people were shocked because we didn’t know what we were getting with Donald Trump,” the Kentucky Republican …
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