Russia Fanned Flames With Twitter, Which Faces a Blowback<br />“If you think about why are people alcoholics, it’s because they don’t acknowledge they’re alcoholics.”<br />But it also said that it had overstated its user base by two million in the previous quarter,<br />meaning the total user base rose by only two million, to 326 million, in the third quarter.<br />“It’s disappointing and disheartening to see how an outside actor can pinpoint areas of division in America<br />and then exploit them,” said Brent Leatherwood, the former executive director of the Tennessee Republican Party.<br />@TEN_GOP was a Russian troll account devoted to stoking division in America, according to a<br />report earlier this month by RBC, a Russian media company with a history of independence.<br />We need to do better on this, and will 4/6<br />“It’s too early to say we’re all going to die because Trump has a smartphone and can say what he wants to a lot of people,” he said.<br />But the platform was forced to apologize for the confusion it generated in trying to explain the changes, tweeting “We need to do better.”<br />This has long been internal policy and we’ll soon update our public-facing rules to reflect it.<br />“You think we’re getting to a better place and then something like this throws a Molotov cocktail into it.”<br />Perhaps no form of communication has ever established itself so quickly and so thoroughly as social media.
