Under pressure, social media giants acknowledge meddling

WASHINGTON (AP) " In three exhaustive hearings this week, executives from Facebook, Twitter and Google acknowledged that their platforms were used by Russia to try and create division over such disparate issues as immigration, gun control and politics. House investigators released a trove of Facebook and Twitter ads that showed just how extraordinary the cyber intrusion was.The companies' admissions and disclosures gave congressional investigators one of their first real wins in the [...]


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