Twitter keeps getting hammered over its Russian propaganda response
In response to questions about potential Russia-linked Twitter bot activity during the Brexit vote, Twitter provided a letter to the UK Parliament last week. The company said it had examined research on bot activity during the vote, and though many accounts it examined were sending spam, the company said it couldn’t find a link to Russian misinformation programs.
Unfortunately for the company, that answer hasn’t been enough. In a testy response sent this week, a member of Parliament asked Twitter to clarify and provide more information on the suspect accounts.
Twitter’s relationship with US lawmakers investigating Russian disinformation has at times seemed similarly…
