The accounts in question attempted to sway public opinion during the Brexit referendum.
Hillary Clinton's account got less than 50,000 retweets by the Russian-linked automated accounts during the final months of the 2016 election.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says he prints out President Trump's tweets and takes them into consideration while planning foreign policy, according to The Hill.
In three months after Donald Trump announced his candidacy, tweets from Russian accounts offered far more praise for the businessman than criticism, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Ahead of Germany’s parliamentary election on Sunday, online supporters of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party began warning their voter base of possible election fraud and calling for observers. On Saturday, the eve of the election, their efforts increased, driven by anonymous troll accounts and boosted by a Russian-language botnet, according to @DFRLab.
The social media company, Twitter, says it will meet with a U.S. Senate committee investigating Russia’s interference in the presidential election, the Associated Press reports.
The top Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said Wednesday that representatives of Facebook and Twitter should appear before the panel to discuss Russian activity during the 2016 election campaign, according to Voice of America (VOA).
Despite once being an incredible resource and still having a potential to become one, Twitter has to come up with a more effective means of addressing the threat posed by fake account botnets, Tony Bradley wrote in a column on Forbes.