Published by: American Thinker
By: Rick Moran
The Daily Beast is reporting that Twitter has discovered very little Russian influence driving the online #ReleaseTheMemo campaign. Their findings directly contradict the accepted wisdom that the campaign is being driven by Russian bots.
In fact, two senior Democrats sent a letter to Twitter and Facebook demanding they investigate the #ReleaseTheMemo campaign for Russian influence.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Rep. Adam Schiff (R-Calif.) want social media companies to probe accounts that have been pushing the #ReleaseTheMemo hashtag. The German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy, which tracks Russian online influence operations, found Russia-linked accounts’ use of the hashtag spiking 233,000 percent in a 48-hour period last week. WikiLeaks offered a reward to anyone who could obtain and leak the memo.
In a letter today to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Feinstein requested the social media companies’ “urgent assistance” on recent “Russian efforts are intended to influence congressional action and undermine Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation, which has already resulted in the indictments of two Trump campaign officials and guilty pleas from two others, who are both now cooperating with prosecutors.”
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