Facebook and Twitter aren’t the only social media platforms that have been infiltrated by Russian propaganda. Reddit, America’s fourth-most popular site, admitted Monday that it’s been a target, too.
CEO Steve Huffman said in a Reddit post that the social news site had identified and removed “a few hundred” Russian propaganda accounts. These accounts were either of “Russian origin or content linking directly to known propaganda domains,” he said. “And of course, every account we find expands our search a little more.”
Huffman noted that most of the suspicious accounts were removed in 2015 and 2016 by earlier efforts to restrict spam and abusive content. He said the company was “still looking deeply” into this problem and was “cooperating with congressional inquiries.”
The Washington Post reported Monday that congressional investigators planned to question Reddit and Tumblr representatives in their probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Their interest was reportedly sparked by a Daily Beast report last week detailing how the Internet Research Agency ― the Kremlin-backed “troll factory” indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller last month ― used Reddit and Tumblr to interfere in the 2016 election.
Source : huffingtonpost
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