Turns out Russian election meddling’s main impact was on the gullible journos who hyped it

A widely cited list of Twitter users who were described as “Russian bots” included “a bunch of legitimate right-leaning accounts,” according to an internal 2018 email from Yoel Roth, then the social media platform’s “trust & safety” chief. Roth thought the list, compiled by the Alliance for Securing Democracy, was “bulls – – t” but never said so publicly, apparently because of pushback from other Twitter employees.

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