In the crosshairs: Both Google and Apple have complained they are being unfairly targeted by European authorities discriminating against multinationals.
Alphabet Inc’s Google is the latest technology company to find that Russian-linked accounts used its advertising network to interfere with the 2016 US presidential election campaign.
Google investigators found US$4,700 (RM19,850) in ads tied to the Russian government, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company discovered another US$53,000 (RM223,842) in ad spending coming from Russia that it’s scrutinising further to determine whether it’s connected with state-sponsored accounts or legitimate ad spending by Russian businesses.
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