NEW YORK — Facebook, Twitter and Google acknowledged to U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday that Russian-linked accounts began exploiting their services in 2015 to sway last year’s presidential election. Why did it take so long for Facebook, Google and Twitter to see how their platforms were used by foreign actors to influence the election? They are political ads. It’s already illegal for Russians and other foreigners to pay for U.S. political ads. Tech platforms are generally not responsible for the content on their sites.

Source: National Post November 01, 2017 04:41 UTC