Twitter revealed that it identified 3,814 accounts run by the Kremlin-linked Internet Research Agency (IRA), an additional 1,062 from its last count.
The social media platform said in a statement that those accounts posted 175,993 Tweets, about 8.4% of which were election-related. Twitter initially said it had discovered 2,200 accounts tied to a troll farm which uses fake social media accounts to stir controversy and conflict.
Twitter has already provided Congress with the results of our supplemental analysis which identified 13,512 additional accounts, for a total of 50,258 automated accounts that were Russian-linked.
Twitter will be further emailing notifications to 677,775 people in the United States who followed one of these accounts or retweeted or liked a Tweet from these accounts during the election period.
Twitter has already suspended those accounts and the relevant content on Twitter is no longer publicly available.
It will also further aim to amplify its transparency pledge by investing in machine-learning capabilities to detect fake accounts, limiting the ability of users to perform coordinated actions across multiple accounts in Tweetdeck and via the Twitter API.
Last year, Twitter banned ads from Russia Today and Sputnik over US presidential election meddling.
Below are the examples of IRA-associated accounts :
