October 2017

Trump Campaign Got Early Word Russia Had Democrats’ Emails

The guilty plea of a 30-year-old campaign aide — so green that he listed Model United Nations in his qualifications — shifted the narrative of the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russia: Court documents revealed that Russian officials alerted the campaign, through an intermediary in April 2016, that they possessed thousands of Democratic emails and other “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. That was two months before the Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee was publicly revealed and the stolen emails began to appear online.

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Extremist Content and Russian Disinformation Online: Working with Tech to Find Solutions

Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism

Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Tuesday, October 31

2:30 p.m.

Date 
Tue, 10/31/2017 - 19:30

Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism

Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Tuesday, October 31

2:30 p.m.

Witnesses

Panel I

  1. Mr. Colin Stretch
    General Counsel
    Facebook
     
  2. Mr. Sean Edgett
    Acting General Counsel
    Twitter
     

Panel II

  1. Mr. Clint Watts
    Robert A. Fox Fellow
    Foreign Policy Research Institute
     
  2. Mr. Michael S. Smith II
    Terrorism Analyst

     



Tech Giants Disclose Russian Activity on Eve of Congressional Appearance

Facebook, Google and Twitter are set to divulge new details showing that the scope of Russian-backed manipulation on their platforms before and after the US presidential election was far greater than previously disclosed, reaching an estimated 126 million people on Facebook alone, according to people familiar with the matter, prepared copies of their testimonies and a company statement. Facebook estimates that 470 Russian-backed accounts connected to a single pro-Kremlin firm, the Internet Research Agency, churned out 80,000 posts on Facebook between January 2015 and August 2017, the social