Twitter closes Kremlin-Backed accounts
By Bloomberg
06 December 2017 |
7:40 am
There is more evidence claiming to show Russia's attempt to influence last year's U.S. election. Twitter says a Kremlin-backed agency created dozens of accounts posing as local American outlets which then published fake news and gained more than half a million followers along the way.
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