Senate Wrestles With Response To Foreign Influence Campaigns

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate intelligence committee is wrestling with how to respond to ongoing foreign efforts to undermine American democracy through social media. Wednesday's committee hearing comes a day after Facebook announced it had uncovered "sophisticated" efforts, possibly linked to Russia, to manipulate U.S. politics. The committee's Republican chairman, Richard Burr, says social media is an important forum for free speech, but that foreign cyber actors are using U.S.

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