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Former Twitter Employee Says Fake Russian Accounts Were Not Taken Seriously
In early 2015, a Twitter employee discovered a vast amount of Twitter accounts with IP addresses in Russia and Ukraine. The worker, Leslie Miley, said most of them were inactive or fake but were not deleted at the time. Miley, who was the company's engineering manager of product safety and security at the time, said efforts to root out spam and manipulation on the platform were slowed down by the company's growth team, which focused on increasing users and revenue.
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Russia is hard to take seriously, i get it: the bleakness, but evidently the alt-right finds their drab social media campaigns irresistible. I just worry that intellectually vulnerable American citizens are being seduced by Russian charm and the joke will be on the sound of mind. It's happened before.