- Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) will be alerting users who might have seen Russian-linked posts during the presidential campaign, it said in Senate testimony.
- Carlos Monje, the company's director of U.S. public policy, said details would be available soon on a plan to identify and personally inform users exposed to content linked to the Internet Research Agency, which endeavored
- Twitter, along with Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (GOOG, GOOG) and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), have been working to reassure congressional committees that they're working to secure themselves against interference before this year's midterm elections.
- Facebook won praise from Sen. Richard Blumenthal on its responsiveness on notifying users; Google, not so much. “It essentially blew off my concerns by saying the nature of the platform made it difficult to know who has viewed its content,” Blumenthal said.
- The companies also say they've updated methods to identify and take down terrorism-related content.
- Now read: Facebook: Less Is More
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