For the past year, the world has reeled over escalating reports of how Russia “hacked” the 2016 US presidential election, by stealing emails from Democrats, attacking voter registration lists and voting machines and running a social media shell game. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, and its vice-president of global communications and public policy, Elliot Schrage, on Capitol Hill. Albright’s data encompasses six Facebook pages previously linked by media investigations to Russia. After he criticized Cruz on Twitter, Russian-linked Twitter accounts disseminated articles focused on discrediting her, analysts say. “Those 18m interactions are only for those six pages, just on Facebook” and not Instagram or other social media, Albright said.

Source: The Guardian October 14, 2017 11:00 UTC