About eight million Facebook posts, "12 million" users (almost half of American voters), while doing more than 131,000 "Tweets" on Twitter, Russian agents who influence American citizens and want to siege political space among themselves, Is seen by And posted over 1100 videos on YouTube.
According to the New York Times, Reuters and the BBC, these statistics have been reported by the social media companies themselves in a written report sent to the US Congress, which searches the Russian underground influence on the US elections in 2016, which clearly denies the Kremlin Has been doing. .
The new information adds a new dimension to alleged Russian efforts to interfere in the American political scene with the "gun" of all the powerful American technology platforms, especially Facebook's World's largest social network World says that web services, The shadow service allegedly connected to the Kremlin, between January 2015 and August 2017, created 29,000 direct posts by 29 million users. Then, their propaganda (e.g., shares, etc.), these messages reached 126 million users.
Facebook has also stated that more than 170 Instagram accounts have been found and removed, out of which 120,000 posts are made with content related to Russian influence. It was revealed that Facebook identified advertisements for more than $ 100,000 paid by the Russian Internet Research Service.
Most Facebook posts were not directly political, but according to Colin Streets, Congress Legal Adviser "Dangerous Annoying" messages, through a wide range of racial, religious, gay and transgender issues, "a fraudulent attempt to divide people "Formed, arms etc.
Stretche has assured Facebook "It is set to stop again from happening." On the other hand, Facebook said that the post linked to Russia reflects the minimum percentage of posts of billions of users.
Twitter told that between September and November 2016, 2,752 billing accounts were discovered and deleted with Russian Internet Monitoring Service, out of which about 131,000 Tweets were sent. It also got more than 36,000 automatic accounts, which was about 1.4 million posts (related to Russia) about the Presidential election in the same quarter, which was seen by users 288 million times. Twitter said that out of the total "ticks" of the pre election period, there were less than 1 million 1.4 lakh messages.
Google, in its statement in Congress, says that it indicates that the Russian Internet Research Service had bought advertisements and split social materials, behaviors, about split relations to make "channels" short-term video "YouTube" on YouTube. US, Syria and others with police officers
According to Google, 18 YouTube channels were "potentially related to" Russian video-casting agents. Overall, it has been estimated that more than 1100 videos of 43 hours total video were posted between 2015 and 2017. But relatively few users saw them (approximately 309 000 times), while only 3% of those videos were over 5000 "hits" Google claims that only the limited Russian interventions have been found in its services.
In any case, according to analysts, the discovery of Russian "finger" in their home for Facebook, Twitter, and Google is awakening, as it shows that they can not be manipulated essentially for a good purpose. This is why Facebook has so far announced another harsh transparency policy, which pays for political advertisements on its network, which Google wants to do
Later, it made it clear that it will not run against the Russian RT channel, which has made a big spectator on YouTube, although the US Secret Service has made R.T. Is considered an important publicity tool for the Kremlin. Instead, Twitter has determined that it will ban both RT and Russian Sputnik.
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