Twitter and Facebook haven't stopped Russia-backed RT from advertising on their websites

[DonViejo]

Source: CNBC News

In a meeting with House and Senate investigators last week, Twitter executives shared more than 1,800 promoted tweets from Russia Today.

The news network's three Twitter accounts remain fully operational.

For Twitter and its peers, they could face further questions about its handling of RT and other Russia-tied accounts in a matter of weeks.

Tony Romm
Published 2 Hours Ago

Twitter has continued to allow a Russian government-supported news network to advertise on its platform, even though the tech company sounded alarms about its ads to lawmakers investigating the Kremlin's interference in the 2016 presidential election.

In a meeting with House and Senate investigators last week, Twitter executives shared more than 1,800 promoted tweets from Russia Today, known as RT, and its three main accounts on the site. Some of the ads, valued in total at about $274,000, sought to promote RT's own stories, including those that sharply attacked Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

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Facebook, meanwhile, similarly has not shut down RT's official pages, one of which boasts more than 4.5 million followers. Nor has Facebook targeted any new advertising restrictions against the news network, a spokesman for the social giant told Recode, before adding they are monitoring the situation. Facebook nonetheless finds itself in congressional crosshairs for Russian-sponsored misinformation circulated in posts and advertisements before Election Day.

Google is still reviewing its platform for potential Russian interference. So far, it has not yet announced any findings or steps to harden its review process, and a spokeswoman declined to comment for this story. But RT videos had been viewed about 800 million times on Google-owned YouTube between the video platform's founding in 2005 and the U.S. government's January 2017 analysis of the election.

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[FairWinds]

1. I was watching RT just this afternoon . .

their show "Boom and Bust" had a very interesting discussion
of the trade dispute between Boeing and Bombardier.

And a few days ago I saw Mathew Ho interviewed on RT - you'll
never see him on the MSM.

I wonder if we could separate Russian election meddling from RT?

And if you are gonna bounce RT, you better bounce FOX, which is FAR worse.

Our local cable also carries Chinese state TV, Japanese state TV, German state TV,
and French state TV. They dropped Al Jazeera unfortunately.

[LanternWaste]

2. Being as they both pander to the will of Putin, it's unnecessary.

"I wonder if we could separate Russian election meddling from RT?"



Being as they both pander to the will of Putin above all else, it's really unnecessary.

RT is not bounced.... merely mocked for being what it is.

However, if you want to pretend RT is equivalent to DW, PBS or NHK, that's on you and you alone.

[FairWinds]

3. Mock away . .

you'll find RT to be a pillar of journalistic integrity

compared to FOX