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| The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary committee has asked Twitter for documents that include the direct-messaging history of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, just days after the probe into “Russian meddling” into 2016 elections fractured along party lines. | |
| “We made the decision to go and carry it out ourselves,” Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) told Mother Jones on Tuesday, referring to the committee's Democrats pursuing the Russia probe. She added that the Republicans “can go ahead and do whatever it is they wanted to do.” | |
| Feinstein wrote to the Twitter CEO asking for documents related to "all ads and organic content posted by Russia-connected users and targeted to any part of the United States, regardless of whether the individual or entity violated any Twitter policy." | |
| Feinstein also listed 14 other categories of information in her request to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, in the letter dated October 27. | |
| The ranking member of the US Senate Judiciary Committee is seeking information "not routinely shared with Congress," the letter read. Her letter also assumes it to be a fact that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, rather than an allegation. | |
| The letter asks for all documents produced by Twitter to other congressional committees concerning “Russia-linked accounts, misinformation networks, or malicious ‘bots’” that spread “misinformation” during the 2016 presidential election campaign. | |
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| Feinstein’s letter also asks Twitter to show how it identified the Russian-linked accounts for which it had previously produced ads or posts. | |
| The documents sought by the lawmaker are focused on efforts to identify other accounts with connections to Russia's alleged influence on the 2016 presidential campaign. | |
| The letter calls for the release of all content from direct messages and data showing the sender, receiver, date and time of each message, for the following accounts: @wikileaks, @WLTaskForce, @GUCCIFER_2, @JulianAssange_, @JulianAssange, and @granmarga. | |
| The letter asks for advertisements funded, or placed by RT, and anyone associated with the Internet Research Agency, or Teka at the time of the election. | |
| The senator asks for documents sufficient to identify how and when Twitter became aware of, addressed or responded to voter suppression tweets. Further, the lawmaker seeks IP addresses, the number of shares and the number of interactions per ad and tweet, as information that should be turned over. | |
| A subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hear from Facebook, Google and Twitter executives on Tuesday, regarding alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election. | |
| The subcommittee on crime and terrorism will host a hearing on “ways to combat and reduce the amount of Russian propaganda and extremist content online,” and witnesses will include Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch, Twitter acting General Counsel Sean Edgett, and Richard Salgado, Google's director of law enforcement and information security, Reuters reported Friday. |