Twitter announced Thursday it revoked Russia Today and Sputnik’s diplomatic advertising credentials from the social media platform.
No more ads allowed.
While the move is the social media giant’s right, Twitter haphazardly cited a bogus report compiled by career liar and former Obama Intel Czar James Clapper who headed ODNI to justify the move.
This is the legal equivalent of the prosecution asking O.J. Simpson to try on a bloody glove.
Twitter alludes that RT and Sputnik helped Hillary Clinton lose the election by tampering in the 2016 contest. So they are now out.
Not to worry: Twitter is donating the $1.6 million+ revenue from the advertisements from 2017 to a charity that will help others learn to use Twitter (this is not a joke).
No mention of refunding the proceeds Twitter reaped from 2016 ad revenue.
From Twitter:
Twitter has made the policy decision to off-board advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, effective immediately. This decision was based on the retrospective work we’ve been doing around the 2016 U.S. election and the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that both RT and Sputnik attempted to interfere with the election on behalf of the Russian government. We did not come to this decision lightly, and are taking this step now as part of our ongoing commitment to help protect the integrity of the user experience on Twitter.
Early this year, the U.S. intelligence community named RT and Sputnik as implementing state-sponsored Russian efforts to interfere with and disrupt the 2016 Presidential election, which is not something we want on Twitter. This decision is restricted to these two entities based our internal investigation of their behavior as well as their inclusion in the January 2017 DNI report. This decision does not apply to any other advertisers. RT and Sputnik may remain organic users on our platform, in accordance with the Twitter Rules.
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