I wrote about the most-overlooked part of Wednesday’s Oversight Committee hearing: The revelation that “thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands” of Russian disinformation accounts are still active on the platform, waging an ongoing war on reality.
This is the first we’ve heard of an ongoing foreign disinfo campaign of this magnitude, and the implications are staggering.
https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/twitter-exec-says-hundreds-of-thousands
This was revealed during an exchange between Rep. Raskin and Twitter’s former head of Trust and Safety, Yoel Roth. I’m astounded that this revelation was largely overlooked and has gone totally unreported, and I’ve contacted both Roth and Raskin for additional information.
The alarming development also comes at a time when Elon Musk has just dismantled many of the teams tasked with monitoring/mitigating foreign interference, and is actively trying to discredit the work they did.
@rvawonk some of us in the infosec community understood the site was already compromised long before that hearing.
We knew where it was heading the day the head security/privacy peeps were culled, right after he assumed control.
Yoel's resignation post was the last good signal.
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