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Officials from Twitter were on Capitol Hill on September 28 to tell congressional investigators about Russia’s use of the social media platform to attempt to influence the 2016 presidential election.

The closed-door hearing with House and Senate staff followed a similar briefing involving Facebook, which revealed earlier this month that it sold more than 3,000 election ads linked to a Russian agency.

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