Surprise! Twitter Did Something Right!
Not only right, but pro-American.
Twitter has made the policy decision to off-board advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, effective immediately. This decision was based on the retrospective work we’ve been doing around the 2016 U.S. election and the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that both RT and Sputnik attempted to interfere with the election on behalf of the Russian government. We did not come to this decision lightly, and are taking this step now as part of our ongoing commitment to help protect the integrity of the user experience on Twitter.
Russia Today and Sputnik will still have Twitter accounts, which I don’t like, but at least they won’t be spreading their message via paid advertising. In addition, Twitter is taking the money they’ve earned from Putin’s mouthpieces (around $1.9 million) and donating it to “support external research into the use of Twitter in civic engagement and elections, including use of malicious automation and misinformation, with an initial focus on elections and automation.”
There’re tons of reasons to be critical of Twitter, but credit where due. Naturally, Russia Today is not happy, spinning it as “Twitter wanted us to spend big!”
Twitter pushed RT for a large ad buy for the 2016 US election, but the channel declined the offer.
Twitter has so far refused to provide more details on the issue for Sputnik.
Of course, there’s a political angle to the Twitter decision: They’re testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week.
RT said last month that the US Department of Justice had asked it to register as a foreign agent, and Yahoo reported around the same time that the FBI had interviewed a former Sputnik reporter as part of an investigation into whether the company was violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Twitter’s representatives are set to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week, along with representatives from Facebook and Google, about how Russia exploited the platform to spread disinformation and propaganda during the 2016 election.
The committee’s vice chairman, Sen. Mark Warner, said earlier this month that the committee’s first interview with Twitter representatives was “deeply disappointing” and “frankly inadequate.”
It just wouldn’t look good if a Senator asks Twitter people this: “Sirs, how much did you profit from your relationship with these organizations that are now agents of a hostile foreign government?”
The post Surprise! Twitter Did Something Right! appeared first on RedState.
Source: https://www.redstate.com/diary/Montagu/2017/10/26/surprise-twitter-something-right/
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Utter bullshit.
Oh. I guess the point is were supposed to be somehow tricked into taking your word for it? The reason all the tech companies promote the same leftist propaganda…is cause they’re all deep state and are all engaged in censoring dissident opinions. Russia’s involvement in the election might be a problem….if it even occurred that way. But there is one thing that’s clear. There is,one hell of a lot of lying that’s going on. Not just by government..but by the people who own the companies that are also running the government. That’s why they all tell us the exact same lies. Corporate and government are one in the same. And its all about the control of money. You can bet the CEO’s that tell us we can’t restrict immigration either dont care or in secret disagree. Thier thinking (or what they say) is sourced ENTIRELY in what they’re being paid…knowing they have tow the line to keep it coming. The Rothchids discovered this phenomenon centuries ago. Granting people access to wealth is all it takes to get people to agree to things that even they know will eventually result in thier own ruin. They knowingly agree to evil hoping they might find some way to escape…