Twitter admitted Friday that more Internet trolls, unleashed by the Russian government, spread divisive messages and disinformation during the U.S. presidential election than it originally said.
And the social media company says it's emailing notifications to the 677,775 people who were exposed to the content during the election.
Twitter now says it has identified 3,184 accounts run by the Kremlin-linked Internet Research Agency, up from 1,062. Those accounts posted 175,993 Tweets, about 8.4% of which were election-related, Twitter said. Twitter initially said it had discovered 2,200 accounts tied to the shadowy organization known as a troll farm because it uses fake social media accounts to stir controversy and conflict.
Twitter: There were more Russian trolls than we thought
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