(L-R) Colin Stretch, general counsel for Facebook; Sean Edgett, acting general counsel for Twitter; and Richard Salgado, director of law enforcement and information security at Google, are sworn in prior to testifying before Senate Judiciary Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee hearing on on "ways to combat and reduce the amount of Russian propaganda and extremist content online," on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, October 31, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
The Hill: Facebook: 126 million people could have seen Russian election content
Facebook and Twitter will reveal new details on the extent of Russian influence on their platforms, according to sources familiar with their upcoming congressional testimonies.
Google also shed light on their internal investigation into the matter, detailed in a post by its general counsel, Kent Walker.
Facebook will say that as many as 126 million people may have seen content posted by the Kremlin-linked Internet Research Agency when it offers testimony on Tuesday about Russia's influence on its platform during the 2016 campaign.
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Update: Facebook estimates 126 million people were served content from Russia-linked pages (CNN).
WNU Editor: The BBC puts all of this into perspective .... Russia, Facebook, the US election and when 126 million isn't 126 million (Mark Frankel, BBC). RT has also posted their top Twitter posts during last year's elections .... RT reveals its top promoted tweets during US election campaign, & the results may surprise you (RT). For RT's Twitter feed, if this accurate .... the U.S. election was not a popular topic on its feed.
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