Russian meddling: 5 things tech giants need to tell Congress
NEW YORK — Facebook, Twitter and Google acknowledged to U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday that Russian-linked accounts began exploiting their services in 2015 to sway last year’s presidential election. Lawyers for the companies were grilled about why they didn’t notice how their platforms were misused earlier, and about what they have done — and will do — to prevent such abuse from happening again.
Here are five things the companies need to tell Congress:
WHY SO LATE?
The election was nearly a year ago. Why did it take so long for Facebook, Google and Twitter to see how their platforms were used by foreign actors to influence the election?