Twitter Inc said it found another 1,062 accounts linked to the Russian government-backed Internet Research Agency accused of trying to influence the 2016 US presidential election.
The social media company said it’s emailing notifications to 677,775 people in the US who followed one of these accounts or retweeted or liked a Tweet from these accounts during the election period, according to a blog post Friday. That’s almost 1% of Twitter’s 69 million monthly active users in the US. The new IRA accounts are in addition to 2,752 accounts Twitter found and disclosed last year.