The following article by Ben Collins and Spencer Ackerman was posted on the Daily Beast website January 25, 2018:
The release of the 1,062 accounts could shine light on how significant Russia’s influence campaign was in the run-up to Donald Trump’s victory.
More than 1,000 now-deleted Twitter accounts attributed by the company to a Kremlin-connected troll farm are now in the hands of legislators investigating Russian interference in the 2016 elections. For the second time in three months, it’s unclear if the public will know if the inflammatory strangers they—and potentially members of the Trump campaign—retweeted and liked were actually Russian imposters.
Twitter revealed late last Friday that it had found 1,062 new accounts controlled or created by St. Petersburg’s infamous Internet Research Agency. That brings the total imposter Twitter accounts discovered by the company thus far up to 3,814. Continue reading “House Democrats Are Trying to Reveal 1,000 New Russian Troll Accounts”