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During the election campaign in the United States, 470 thousand reports of candidate Donald Trump were made with Russia associated with Russia. This is stated in the next report by Twitter, sent to Congress, Bloomberg reports .

This amounts to about 4 percent of all reposts that collected Twites Trump. During the same period, only 50 thousand retweets of the posts of his rival, candidate from the Demill of Hillary Clinton, were made from these accounts.

In addition, Twitter found that the accounts of 48 to 73 percent of WikiLeaks records related to Russia account for, in which emails from hacked servers of the Democratic Party were published. In the first seven days after the publication, 455 million shows were recorded. This is significantly the number that Twitter reported earlier.

The report also notes that from accounts related to the Russian "Internet research agency" (known as the "Troll Factory"), attempts were made to establish contacts with American journalists and politicians. Such actions are difficult to automate, Twitter noted. Thus, the actions of the bots were supplemented by human activity, which makes it difficult to identify accounts.

On December 20, the Twitter administration reported that she blocked more than a thousand accounts from which they published Russian propaganda during the presidential campaign. “In accordance with our transparency policy, we sent notification to 677775 by e -mail to users in the United States that were signed, likes like messages from these accounts during the election period. Since we have already blocked these accounts that corresponding to Twitter is no longer available to the public,” the report said.

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.