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Lawyers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google started two days of hearings on how Russia allegedly used their services to try to sway the 2016 U. Facebook is trying to crack down on fake news. SAN FRANCISCO — As many as 126 million people — or one-third the U. Russian troll farm under fake Facebook identities between 2015 and 2017, according to  testimony presented by Facebook’s general counsel at a hearing before the Senate on Tuesday. The figure is the largest yet of the possible reach Russian operatives had on the giant social platformin the run-up to last year’s presidential election and afterwards and reflects Facebook’s new disclosures that a Kremlin-linked misinformation agency used original content in users’ feeds, as well as paid ads.

Previously Facebook said 10 million people saw Russia-linked advertising that sought to sway U. The figures come as Capitol Hill readies itself for two more hearings on the ways Russia used social media to influence the U. 2016 election, scheduled to take place  on Wednesday. Facebook, Twitter and Google are set to testify at a Senate subcommittee hearing to help find solutions to Russian disinformation.

Social media companies are under pressure to respond to demands by lawmakers that they follow the same regulations on political ads as advertisers in newspapers and on radio and television currently do, including disclosures about who paid for the ads and bans on foreign entities running election-related ads. Facebook, Google and Twitter have all said they would begin doing so, though lawmakers have pushed for additional concessions. Twitter, which originally said it found 201 accounts linked to Russia that were sending out automated, election-related content, also increased its estimates of the reach these operatives had on its platform. It has now found 36,746 such accounts, according to testimony to be presented by the company’s acting general counsel Sean Edgett. The goal, said Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch, was “to try to sow division and discord — and to try to undermine our election process.