Documents reveal how ‘Russiagate’ was used for Twitter censorship

Internal documents

Democrats threatened regulation and leaked to the press to pressure the platform.

Internal documents from Twitter made public on Tuesday show how the social media platform was pressured to follow the US intelligence community’s lead on censorship back in 2017. Key Democrats in the US Congress, a British university, and two media outlets – Politico and BuzzFeed – played a major role in constructing and amplifying the ‘Russiagate’ conspiracy theory, according to research by Matt Taibbi.

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