{"id":345029,"date":"2018-01-23T04:27:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T03:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/twitter-warns-users-were-watching-you\/"},"modified":"2018-01-23T04:27:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T03:27:31","slug":"twitter-warns-users-were-watching-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/twitter-warns-users-were-watching-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter warns users: We\u2019re watching you"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Twitter warns users: We\u2019re watching you<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Andre Damon<br \/>\n    <br \/>22 January 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>In an overt act of political intimidation, the social media platform Twitter emailed hundreds of thousands of users Saturday informing them that they had shared or followed \u201cRussian propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter made these claims without substantiation, refusing to tell its users exactly what content they shared or viewed that fell afoul of the US government and its social media enforcers. Among the recipients of the email was the Senate\u2019s second-highest ranking Republican, John Cornyn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of our recent work to understand Russian-linked activities on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election,\u201d read the email sent out by Twitter, \u201cwe identified and suspended a number of accounts that were potentially connected to a propaganda effort by a Russian government-linked organization known as the Internet Research Agency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taking the guise of a friendly warning, Twitter continued, \u201cConsistent with our commitment to transparency, we are emailing you because we have reason to believe that you either followed one of these accounts or retweeted or liked content from these accounts during the election period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Twitter is warning its users that it knows exactly what they are viewing and sharing on social media, implying that if they post something that falls afoul of the US government, they may be subject to investigation or prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter\u2019s action is the latest step in a campaign led by the Democratic Party, the <em>New York Times<\/em>, the <em>Washington Post<\/em> and the leading intelligence agencies to argue that the growth of social opposition that expressed itself in broad popular hostility to the Clinton campaign during the 2016 election is the result of \u201cRussian&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/01\/22\/cens-j22.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Twitter warns users: We\u2019re watching you By Andre Damon 22 January 2018 In an overt act of political intimidation, the social media platform Twitter emailed hundreds of thousands of users Saturday informing them that they had shared or followed \u201cRussian propaganda.\u201d Twitter made these claims without substantiation, refusing to tell its users exactly what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}