Re:Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT
by nathankunicki on Friday October 27, 2017 @06:57AM
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No, it shows Twitter partnering with a media organisation. I'm willing to bet Twitter offered similar deals to many other media outlets, both US and abroad.
Twitter does nothing to promote biased reporting in this, merely that RT should use their platform for political reporting.
Re:Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT
by imron on Friday October 27, 2017 @07:01AM
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I agree hence the reason I put 'colluding' in quotes.
This is grasping at straws.
Re:Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT
by wavefunction on Friday October 27, 2017 @07:35AM
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Multiple parties can collude with Russia. The fact that Twitter was and Trump extensively uses Twitter for his own propaganda might underline that fact.
Re:Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT
by imron on Friday October 27, 2017 @07:57AM
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> Trump extensively uses Twitter for his own propaganda might underline that fact.
Him and how many other hundreds of millions of other users, using Twitter for its primary purpose.
If 'Twitter sold ads to Russia and <candidate> used Twitter to promote their own propaganda' is the baseline for collusion with Russia to influence the election then that would make every single presidential candidate guilty of collusion also.
Re:Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT
by wavefunction on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:48PM
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Only one candidate colluded with Russia though.
This doesn't contradict that, rather it shows that Twitter was the one 'colluding'.