Just from a quick search [1], yes. I don't think megous's comment has a "it's a joke bro" attitude. You're criticizing a company that provides a free service for taking the due diligence to prune its paying clients of anyone that they don't think should be a paying client. This has nothing to do with inflated growth numbers, it's about Twitter making the decision that they do not want state-funded Russian companies advertising on their platform. The bots issue is a completely different thing that I'm sure Twitter has an entire team of devs devoted to. It's not as easy as flipping a switch. They need to make sure they aren't banning real users of their service just because language and posting patterns used by those bots are based on those of real users.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/10/09...
Did Google run political ads that were purchased by other countries and intended to deceive the US electorate? If so then YES + a lot more than apologize.
> Paper apologizing for people writing on it?
There's no need for this. This is a major issue and I'm taking it very seriously. The "it's a joke bro" attitude here on HN, in your comment, all over reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc., is sickening. It plays right into the Russian books - make the Americans argue about it and make jokes and make fun of the people who care!