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witter deliberately exaggerated claims about Russian propaganda flooding its platform in an effort to appease the Democrats and their allies in the corporate media, the latest installment of the “Twitter Files” has revealed.
According to journalist Matt Taibbi, who released another batch of the internal communication files this week, Twitter found no evidence that Russia was ramping up its influence efforts on the social media platform.
Twitter’s own internal investigations found that the claim was a “dud,” Taibbi revealed.
Nevertheless, Twitter’s former executives continued to push the Democrats’ narrative that Russia was using bots to spread propaganda and influence America’s elections, despite knowing it was false.
Twitter initially tried to stay out of the spotlight on the Russia issue in 2017.
The company’s execs were hoping that rival Facebook would remain the main target of scrutiny from the media and Democrats.
Twitter’s PR department even agreed on a media strategy to “keep the focus on FB.”
