Caroline Orr Bueno on Nostr: Re. the “dormant” accounts: Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of Trust & Safety, ...
Re. the “dormant” accounts: Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of Trust & Safety, testified during a congressional hearing in February that “thousands or hundreds of thousands” of “counterfeit” Russian Twitter accounts targeting the U.S. are still active on the platform as part of an ongoing campaign.
I wrote about this, and how Russian accounts have gotten more sophisticated & harder to detect in the past few years.
https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/twitter-exec-says-hundreds-of-thousands Published at
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