- Twitter and Facebook will tell Congress this week that Russia's election meddling on their platforms was wider than originally reported.
- Twitter will say that over 30,000 Russia-linked accounts generated 1.4 million tweets during the final stretch of the campaign.
- Facebook will say that nearly 126 million people were exposed to content tied to Russia-linked accounts over a two-year period.
Twitter will tell Congress this week that Russia-linked accounts "
In a portion of the prepared testimony, which was obtained by Business Insider on Monday, Twitter's acting general counsel identified 36,746 accounts that generated automated, election-related content and had at least one of the characteristics we used to associate an account with Russia."
That is far higher than the number of Russia-linked accounts Twitter initially disclosed to the Senate Intelligence Committee in a closed-door interview last month. Twitter representatives reportedly told investigators that it had uncovered only 201 Russia-linked accounts, leading Democratic Sen. Mark Warner to tell reporters that the interview was "deeply inadequate."
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When Edgett appears before the Senate intelligence and judiciary committees this week, however, he will testify that those 36,746 accounts "generated approximately 1.4 million automated, election-related Tweets, which collectively received approximately 288 million impressions."
Twitter emphasized in its prepared remarks that the nearly 37,000 accounts represented "
By comparison, Facebook will tell Congress that Russia-linked accounts produced approximately 80,000 posts on the platform between 2015-2017 that were seen by about 126 million Americans.