MSNBC: Facebook Says Russian Election Content Reached 126M Americans

‘We are learning just now how aggressive Russia was in using social media to influence the 2016 election’

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BRZEZINSKI: "We are learning just now how aggressive Russia was in using social media to influence the 2016 election. It comes as Facebook, Twitter and Google prepare to testify on Capitol Hill. Facebook now says an estimated 126 million people received Russian-backed content on its website during the 2016 election. That's roughly 1/3 of the nation's population. The revelation was made in prepared testimony by Facebook’s general counsel, Colin Stretch, ahead of the hearing. Facebook says some 29 million Americans directly receive material from 80,000 posts by 120 fake Russian-backed pages."

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