4."KEEP THE FOCUS ON FB": Twitter was so sure they had no Russia problem, execs agreed the best PR strategy was to say nothing on record, and quietly hurl reporters at Facebook: pic.twitter.com/O3JtmId6MJ
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
https://t.co/UDnxeU9IGx September, 2017, after a cursory review, Twitter informed the Senate it suspended 22 possible Russian accounts, and 179 others with "possible links" to those accounts, amid a larger set of roughly 2700 suspects manually examined.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
9."KEEP PRODUCING MATERIAL" After meeting with congressional leaders, Crowell wrote: "Warner has political incentive to keep this issue at top of the news, maintain pressure on us and rest of industry to keep producing material for them." pic.twitter.com/WiEQJzxGZv
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
12.The "Russia Task Force" started mainly with data shared from counterparts at Facebook, centered around accounts supposedly tied to Russia's Internet Research Agency (IRA). But the search for Russian perfidy was a dud: pic.twitter.com/UKjxyRTSnZ
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
16.OCT 23 2017: "Finished with investigation... 2500 full manual account reviews, we think this is exhaustive... 32 suspicious accounts and only 17 of those are connected with Russia, only 2 of those have significant spend one of which is Russia Today...remaining <$10k in spend." pic.twitter.com/Kkdyx4HDOr
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
https://t.co/4r1EI1EhCb congress threatened costly legislation, and Twitter began was subject to more bad press fueled by the committees, the company changed its tune about the smallness of its Russia problem.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
26."THE COMMITTEES APPEAR TO HAVE LEAKED" Even as Twitter prepared to change its ads policy and remove RT and Sputnik to placate Washington, congress turned the heat up more, apparently leaking the larger, base list of 2700 accounts. pic.twitter.com/ZydFYFSjLA
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
30."REPORTERS NOW KNOW THIS IS A MODEL THAT WORKS" This cycle - threatened legislation, wedded to scare headlines pushed by congressional/intel sources, followed by Twitter caving to moderation asks - would later be formalized in partnerships with federal law enforcement. pic.twitter.com/DWSlHkk2cm
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
31.Twitter soon settled on its future posture.In public, it removed content "at our sole discretion." Privately, they would "off-board" anything "identified by the U.S.. intelligence community as a state-sponsored entity conducting cyber-operations." pic.twitter.com/Jc94kEg2KR
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
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