Twitter Says Russian Bots Retweeted Trump 470,000 Times

Russian-linked Twitter bots shared Donald Trump’s tweets almost half a million times during the final months of the 2016 election, Twitter Inc. said in a submission to Congress. The automated accounts retweeted the Republican candidate’s @realDonaldTrump posts almost 470,000 times, accounting for just more than 4 percent of the re-tweets he received from Sept. 1 … Continue reading Twitter Says Russian Bots Retweeted Trump 470,000 Times