Senator Warner added that a 50-state attack wouldn’t be necessary to swing an election. “You could pick two or three states in two or three jurisdictions and alter an election.”
A more complete scope of Russia’s disinformation campaign on social media is taking shape. As reported here a few days ago, Facebook (and now Twitter) has turned over evidence of Russian linked ad buys. Facebook, Google and Twitter have all been invited to testify publicly before the Senate Intelligence Committee on November 1st. Senator Warner expressed gratitude that tech companies were “recognizing that threat now.”
Senator Burr did take the opportunity to put to bed a few speculative rumors. One of them regarded a meeting that took place between Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, and then-senator Jeff Sessions. Sessions came under fire during his confirmation hearing for undisclosed Russian contacts. This meeting took place at the Mayflower hotel in Washington, D.C., as part of an event. Burr said there was no evidence of subversive activity.
