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The story about Twitter's black bottom line is about Q3 2017, so I doubt that it's connected to the 2016 election.

• celticninja 9y ago
  it all helps though, and I imagine that if they (RT) spent large for the election and got their chosen candidate elected they would keep on spending to support him, see the numerous russian bot accounts following Trump or those that are being used to comment on BLM/flag protestors etc http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/ http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/
  • mcintyre1994 9y ago
    Twitter have said they're going to donate all the RT ad money to external research on use of Twitter for things like this. They said it's $1.9m. Also the profit report seems to be based on a claim for next quarter, and presumably they've either costed that donation in Q3 or factored it into their Q4 prediction.
    • celticninja 9y ago
      RT and Sputnik are not the only way that Russian money is getting into Twitter, either way my point stands that they received income from this source, courted money from this source and have now become profitable in part as a result of the money they have received from russian organisations.