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https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372362725122048
5.“Twitter is not the focus of inquiry into Russian election meddling right now - the spotlight is on FB,” wrote Public Policy VP Colin Crowell:
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372365753499650
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In 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.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372367909363714
7.Receiving these meager results, a furious Senator Mark Warner of Virginia – ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee – held an immediate press conference to denounce Twitter’s report as “frankly inadequate on every level.”
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372371101138949
8.“#Irony,” mused Crowell the day after Warner’s presser, after receiving an e-circular from Warner’s re-election campaign, asking for “$5 or whatever you can spare.”
“LOL,” replied General Counsel Sean Edgett.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372373886148608
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.”
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372376792891395
10.“TAKING THEIR CUES FROM HILLARY CLINTON” Crowell added Dems were taking cues from Hillary Clinton, who that week said: “It’s time for Twitter to stop dragging its heels and live up to the fact that its platform is being used as a tool for cyber-warfare.”
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372379607277572
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In growing anxiety over its PR problems, Twitter formed a “Russia Task Force” to proactively self-investigate.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372382899707905
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:
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372385932443648
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OCT 13 2017: “No evidence of a coordinated approach, all of the accounts found seem to be lone-wolf type activity (different timing, spend, targeting, <$10k in ad spend).”
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372389258280967
14.OCT 18 2017: “First round of RU investigation… 15 high risk accounts, 3 of which have connections with Russia, although 2 are RT.”
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372391825178625
15.OCT 20 2017: “Built new version of the model that is lower precision but higher recall which allows to catch more items. We aren’t seeing substantially more suspicious accounts. We expect to find ~20 with a small amount of spend.”
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372394366943234
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.”
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372397173182464
17.Twitter’s search finding “only 2” significant accounts, “one of which is Russia Today,” was based on the same data that later inspired panic headlines like “Russian Influence Reached 126 Million Through Facebook Alone”:
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372401409282048
18.The failure of the “Russia task force” to produce “material” worsened the company’s PR crisis.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372404903313408
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In the weeks after Warner’s presser, a torrent of stories sourced to the Intel Committee poured into the news, an example being Politico’s October 13, “Twitter deleted data potentially crucial to Russia probes.”
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372407549730826
20.“Were Twitter a contractor for the FSB… they could not have built a more effective disinformation platform,” Johns Hopkins Professor (and Intel Committee “expert”) Thomas Rid told Politico.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372410338934784
21.As 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.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610372412419280899
22.“Hi guys.. Just passing along for awareness the writeup here from the WashPost today on potential legislation (or new FEC regulations) that may affect our political advertising,” wrote Crowell.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610374999210164230
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In Washington weeks after the first briefing, Twitter leaders were told by Senate staff that “Sen Warner feels like tech industry was in denial for months.” Added an Intel staffer: “Big interest in Politico article about deleted accounts."
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610374999210164230
24.Twitter “pledged to work with them on their desire to legislate”:
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610375349535121409
25.“Knowing that our ads policy and product changes are an effort to anticipate congressional oversight, I wanted to share some relevant highlights of the legislation Senators Warner, Klobuchar and McCain will be introducing,” wrote Policy Director Carlos Monje soon after.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610375493341028353
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.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610375673868156935
27.Reporters from all over started to call Twitter about Russia links. Buzzfeed, working with the University of Sheffield, claimed to find a “new network” on Twitter that had “close connections to… Russian-linked bot accounts.”
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610375860220985344
28.“IT WILL ONLY EMBOLDEN THEM.” Twitter internally did not want to endorse the Buzzfeed/Sheffield findings:
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610376067453272065
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“SENATE INTEL COMMITTEE IS ASKING… POSSIBLE TO WHIP SOMETHING TOGETHER?” Still, when the Buzzfeed piece came out, the Senate asked for “a write up of what happened.” Twitter was soon apologizing for the same accounts they’d initially told the Senate were not a problem.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610376382709927936
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.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610376851377061888
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.”
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610376978930040833
32.Twitter let the “USIC” into its moderation process. It would not leave.
Wrote Crowell, in an email to the company’s leaders:
“We will not be reverting to the status quo.”
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610377238335131649
33.For more on the #TwitterFiles, check out
@BariWeiss
,
@ShellenbergerMD
,
@LHFang
, and
@davidzweig
.
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>>155534, >>155535, >>155537, >>155538, >>155539, >>155540, >>155544, >>155545, >>155546, >>155547, >>155548, >>155549, >>155550, >>155551, >>155552, >>155553, >>155554, >>155555, >>155556, >>155557, >>155558 MattTaibbi (Twatt) 1.THREAD: The Twitter Files Part 11: Twitter and the FBI “Belly Button”
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155562 >>155563 >>155565, >>155588, >>155589, >>155590, >>155591, >>155592, >>155593, >>155594, >>155595, >>155596, >>155597, >>155598, >>155599, >>155600, >>155601 MattTaibbi (Twatt) The Twitter Files part 12: How Twitter Let the Intelligence Community In (start of full Twatt Thread)
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