Twitter, With Accounts Linked to Russia, to Face Congress Over Role in Election
But Representative Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said he would like to know exactly what the company has done to find covert Russian activity
and what it has discovered so far about fake accounts — including their reach and impact.
But Mr. Putin also sought to darken the image of the United States, making it a less attractive model for other countries
and reducing its international influence, said Mark R. Jacobson, a Georgetown professor and co-author of a new report on Russian influence operations.
Eleven percent focused on wiretapping in the federal investigation into Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign
chairman, with most of them treated the news as a vindication for President Trump’s earlier wiretapping claims.
The cybersecurity company FireEye identified what it called “warlists” of accounts linked to Russian intelligence
that sometimes spewed messages like #WarAgainstDemocrats several times a minute.
Mr. Schiff said the tech companies have asked for assistance from American intelligence agencies in trying to find
and stop illicit interference from other countries, a request he said he supports.
“I think right now the public is aware of only a subset of a subset of Russian activity online,” Mr. Schiff said in an interview.
Experts on Russia inside and outside the government say President Vladimir V. Putin had
multiple goals in last year’s campaign of hacking, leaking and stealth propaganda.
