Twitter told to dig deeper in Brexit interference inquiry
Twitter has been asked once again to comply with a request for information about possible interference on its platform during Britain's EU referendum. Back in October , the UK's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee asked Facebook and Twitter to investigate the possibility of social and political engineering by Russia-controlled accounts. It followed research by a London university which found that 13,500 fake accounts had tweeted shortly before the vote in 2016. Twitter has struggled to provide information, however, that satisfies the committee. In a letter dated January 19th , the company said it had contacted City University of London and examined its research. Of the accounts that were identified, only one percent were created by users in Russia. "While many of the accounts identified by City University were in violation of the Twitter Rules regarding spam, at this time, we do not have sufficiently strong evidence to enable us to conclusively l...