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‘Puters Putin: Did You Get Trolled By Russian Bots?

Twitter notified over half a million users who followed or shared fake news from Russian bot accounts.

Published on January 20, 2018
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CNN:

Twitter will inform 677,775 people in the US that they either followed a Kremlin-linked troll account, or retweeted or liked a tweet sent by one of the accounts.

https://twitter.com/ava/status/954548701443182592

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