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Twitter to Tell 677,000 users they were Scammed by the Russians during the Recent U.S. Election

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Twitter says it will notify nearly 700,000 users who interacted with accounts the company has identified as potential pieces of a propaganda effort by the Russian government during the 2016 presidential election. The company on Friday also disclosed thousands of accounts that it said were associated with the Kremlin-linked troll farm, the Internet Research Agency (IRA) and the Russian government, adding to numbers that it released to Congress in October.

Details may be found in the National Post at: http://bit.ly/2DYWUWN.

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