Russian influence will be testified in front of Senate committee.
The Washington post on Monday reported that Google has discovered that the operatives in Russia are spending thousands of dollars on advertisements on websites like Google search, You tube, Gmail etc.
The problem started when Google spotted that the ads do not appear from the same Kremlin-affiliated entity that brought ads on these websites. This clearly indicates the broad disinformation effort.
Google has not spoken much on this topic. It has downplayed the possibility of Russian influence .But on the other hand it has launched a probe to look into the matter.
A source who is not linked to any of the search engine or website reported that in last few months Google has unearthed less than 1Lakh dollars in ad spending that were linked to Russian actors somewhere or the other.
As a matter of fact, facebook has unearthed more than 1 lakh dollars in spending from just one Russian entity.
The investigations from congress side have already been started regarding the Russian interference in 2016 Presidential elections of United States of America. The lawmakers on both the political sides says that Russia intend to spread the propaganda and sway the elections to elect the current President Donald Trump.
On November 1, it is expected that Google officials in front both the house and senate intelligence committees will testify about the Russian attempts to use their platform in order to affect the election results negatively.