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The Twitter administration blocked the 201 account in connection with the investigation of Russian US presidential election 2016. It is reported by Reuters.

"Of the approximately 450 accounts that Facebook recently shared as part of his audit, we came to the conclusion that 22 of them are associated with accounts on Twitter. All these identified accounts were already suspended or we were immediately blocked for violation of our rules, mainly for violations of spam prohibitions," the company said. - In addition, together with these. We discovered another 179 related or connected accounts, and took measures against those who violated our rules. "

Twitter collaborates with the Intelligence Committee of both Chambers of the US Congress, investigating Russian intervention in the elections. On Thursday, the vice-president of the Public Policy company Colin Crowell testified at a closed hearing in the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Democrat Senator Mark Warner remained "deeply disappointed" of the scarcity of information provided by the Twitter administration. According to Warner, the performance of the company representative was not well -worked and was based on the Facebook report made earlier. “Their reaction, frankly, was insufficient in almost all parameters,” the senator said.

On September 7, the Facebook administration said that when analyzing the advertising published on the social network for its possible connection with Russian interference in the American elections , about 3 thousand suspicious announcements were discovered, which were placed from about 470 sub -pages associated with another and allegedly managed from Russia. Since the Facebook policy does not allow the use of fake pages, they were removed.

On September 12, The Daily Beast said that the Americans were called to protest with the help of anonymous Facebook anonymous accounts from Russia. At the same time, the mechanisms of paid advertising on social networks were used. In particular, in August 2016, rallies against immigrants and Muslims were organized in August 2016.

On September 15, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Facebook administration sent the US special prosecutor to investigate the election to Robert Muller on the sale of advertising at request from Russia . The special prosecutor received copies of advertisements, the parameters of fictitious accounts, the owners of which purchased ads, as well as the criteria of customers to determine the target audience.

On September 22, Facebook Executive Director Mark Zuckerberg promised to make the placement of political advertising in his service more transparent .

On Tuesday, it became known that the US Senate Committee invited the top managers of Facebook, Twitter and Google to open hearings in Congress dedicated to Russian intervention in the elections. The meeting is scheduled for November 1.