Another day in the New York Times' all-hands-on-deck campaign to get Biden off the Democratic ticket.
Also another day when the nation's most important news organization demonstrates a profound lack of integrity, by refusing to acknowledge its activism or explain who's behind it and why.
3/ Klasfeld has more at his site, here:
As @JosephMenn reports, Russian propagandists are eager buyers of Twitter Blue.
This is because Twitter Blue privileges their posts in Twitter's relevancy algorithm, ensuring their propaganda achieves more reach.
It also gives them a fancy blue badge.
Russian propagandists aren't the only bad dudes buying Twitter Blue. A few months ago, I discovered that the Taliban are also paying for the service.
Twitter Blue: loved by Putin and the Taliban!
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