Indictment: Social media firms got played by Russian agents
Friday's election-interference indictment brought by Robert Mueller, the U.S. special counsel, underscores how thoroughly social-media companies like Facebook and Twitter were played by Russian propagandists.And it's not clear if the companies have taken sufficient action to prevent something similar from happening again.Thirteen Russians, including a businessman close to Vladimir Putin, were charged Friday in a plot to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election through [...]
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