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US Questions Social Media Giants over Election Interference

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are to be questioned over the issue of potentially Russia-funded influence on social media during the 2016 US election.

The US Congress investigates Russian interference in the 2016 US election - and hears that 126 million Americans were exposed to politically divisive web content that originated in Russia. We hear how Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are to be questioned over the issue of potentially Russia-funded influence.

We also hear the latest on the ground in New York, where people have died after an attack involving a truck driving in to people, with reports of shots being fired. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Michelle Fleury tells us more.

And we hear about new initiatives in the US to tackle the gap between what men and women earn. All this with live guests Mitchell Hartman of Marketplace on American Public Media in Portland, Oregon in the US, and Dr Peter Bance, chief executive of Origami Energy in the studio in London.

(Image: Twitter on a phone screen. Credit: Damien Meyer/ AFP/ Getty Images)

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