Google is investigating suspicious advertising across YouTube, search and Gmail, as it tries to understand whether Russian actors used the company’s platform to try to influence the US presidential election.
The Alphabet-owned internet company’s investigation follows probes by Facebook and Twitter, both of which have discovered attempts by Russian groups to buy ads on political and social issues targeted at US audiences before and after the election last year.
Congress has called all three companies to testify before investigators looking into Russian interference in last year’s election, ranging from misinformation online to the hacking of the Democratic National Committee.