Congress grills Facebook, Twitter, Google on shells hiding election meddlers

 How can Internet giants know that innocent-seeming US shell companies aren’t actually vehicles for malicious foreign actors to buy ads to interfere with elections? The short answer is they can’t, and that drew questioning from a congressional probe today into Facebook, Twitter, and Google. One member of the committee questioning the companies’ spokespeople asked: “How… Read More

from TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/31/election-inference-shell-companies/?ncid=rss