Six revelations from tech's answers on Russian election meddling
January 26, 2018
Facebook, Twitter and Google outlined their efforts to keep state-sponsored groups from manipulating their platforms and interfering in the US political process. Here are six interesting revelations:
- Facebook says its data doesn’t give insight into collusion
- Russian groups created 129 Facebook events
- Facebook cuts Kaspersky Labs from list of anti-virus options
- As long as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden do not violate their terms of service, those individuals are free to use the platforms
- Independent data group in the works; Google earnings from Russians still murky
- Twitter casts doubt on results of third-party research on platform
Six revelations from tech's answers on Russian election meddling