House Russia Probe Targets Google’s YouTube and Gmail
RT Network’s YouTube presence may be part of U.S. lawmakers’ scrutiny
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As part of a wide-ranging investigation into how Russian-linked operatives harnessed social media during the 2016 U.S. election, lawmakers are homing in on Google services including YouTube and Gmail.
The Senate has called Alphabet Inc.’s Google to testify Nov. 1, along with executives from Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. A U.S. House of Representatives panel, which is running its own probe, is focusing on any materials on Russian ad buying on Google, search engine manipulations, fake news and the potential uses of YouTube, according to two House committee members. Another target of the inquiry is Gmail, the committee members said.