Twitter under fire from UK government over Russian influence in 2017 election

Twitter has been criticised by the UK government in wake of an expose into how Russian accounts run by 'bots' may have influenced the 2017 general election.
According to an investigation by The Times, in conjunction with Swansea University, over 6,500 Russian Twitter accounts (many of which were identified as fake), were found to have promoted positive messages about the Labour leader in the lead up to the general election.
It found that 80% of the ‘bot’ accounts were created just we