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Continuing social media response to Russian disinformation: Facebook announced that it is developing a tool in its Help Center that will show users a list of their followed or liked Facebook and Instagram accounts that were developed by the Russian IRA troll farm. The new transparency portal will be live by 2018. However, the portal will not show ads or organic posts, which Facebook estimates could have been seen by “more than 140 million people.” While Facebook takes these steps to increase its transparency, The Daily Beast finds that “Twitter has not provided the House and Senate Russia …read more