dailycaller
ERIC LIEBERMAN
Tech and Law Reporter
3:40 PM 09/07/2017
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http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/07/twitter-expected-to-brief-congress-on-potential-russian-interference-says-report/Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia said Thursday that he anticipates Twitter will soon brief congressional investigators on Russian activity on its platform, according to The Wall Street Journal.
As the leading Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Warner has raised concerns for months that Russia tried to influence the election by promulgating “fake news.”
Social media platforms like Twitter are often used for people to consume as many informational tidbits as possible in a short period of time. Users accompany their 140-character-or-less tweets with a link to a news story, but other users and observers often read just the brief caption and treat it as a sufficient morsel of news, misleading people in the process.
Completely false stories also make their way to the platform.
