Trolls in a disconnection

The Twitter administration has blocked more than a thousand accounts with which Russian propaganda was published during a presidential campaign in the United States. This is stated in the company's press release .

"We identified and suspended the action of a number of accounts that were potentially related to the propaganda efforts of the Russian Property Organization, known as the" Internet research agency ". In accordance with our transparency policy, we sent notification 677775 to users in the United States, which were signed, placed their likes or reposti from these accounts in these accounts. The course of the electoral period.

1062 accounts fell under the lock. In total, 3814 accounts associated with the "troll factory" were discovered. Almost 176 thousand messages were sent from them for 10 weeks, of which 8.4 percent were related to the elections

The Twitter administration also presented the Congress with the results of an additional analysis of automated activities related to the election campaign. From 13.5 thousand bots, messages related to the elections were published. This is approximately two hundredths of a percent of the total number of accounts at that time. “However, any such activity is a problem for democratic societies around the world, and we will continue to work on this important issue,” the message emphasizes.

On September 29, the Twitter administration blocked accounts allegedly related to Russian intervention. "Of the approximately 450 accounts that Facebook recently shared as part of his verification, we came to the conclusion that 22 of them are related to Twitter accounts. All these identified accounts have already been prostrated or we were immediately blocked for violation of our rules, mainly for violations of spam prohibitions, the company said. With these accounts, we discovered another 179 related or connected accounts, and took measures against those who violated our rules. "

However, the Democrat Senator Mark Warner remained “deeply disappointed” with the scarcity of the 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 October 14, Twitter transferred the Senate to the Senate for Intelligence Information about the 201 account related to Russia's attempts to influence the presidential election.

On October 17, RBC reported that the "troll factory" spent about $ 2.3 million on propaganda in social networks among Americans. Of this money, about two million dollars have been spent on salaries to employees over the past two years. Also, about 120 thousand dollars, five thousand dollars a month, for two years was spent on promotion in social networks. These funds mainly went to buy an advertisement on Facebook. The department began to work actively in June 2015. In the fall of 2017, the social networks blocked the majority of the Factory communities.