Google and Twitter have also said that people in Russia used their services to spread messages in the run-up to last year’s US presidential election. US lawmakers have responded angrily to the idea of foreign meddling, introducing legislation to require online platforms to say who is running election ads and what audiences are targeted. The US Senate’s crime subcommittee will be the first of three committees to hold hearings on Russia. And we’re determined to prevent it from happening again,” Stretch will tell lawmakers, according to an advance copy of his remarks. Google followed on Monday, saying it would create a database of election ads including ones on YouTube.

Source: Egypt Independent October 31, 2017 09:56 UTC