Twitter has suspended over 5,000 accounts tied to a network amplifying a message denouncing the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller as a "RussiaGate hoax."
An investigation into the network is still ongoing, the spokeswoman said, but no determination has yet been made about who was behind the campaign.
"If we do have reasonable evidence to support state-backed activity, we will disclose the accounts as part of our information operations archive."
(This archive is the data repository used to reveal operations of networks previously tied to election manipulation and other state-backed information operations.).
The renaming of the Twitter account was part of an effort to make it look like a legitimate news outlet.
The account only had 126 tweets but had 21.2 thousand followers—at least 5,000 of which appeared to be "bots.".
This is not the first time a campaign tied to Saudi interests resulted in a takedown of Twitter accounts. »