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It's difficult because they are both private companies. The Internet Research Agency is a private Russian company that was indicted by Mueller for election inte
by Meekro 7y ago
It's difficult because they are both private companies. The Internet Research Agency is a private Russian company that was indicted by Mueller for election interference activities, among them paying people to tweet in support of some US politicians.
So what exactly are private companies allowed to do to support or undermine a foreign candidate? Apparently tweeting goes too far. But if you restrict a candidate's tweeting, is that okay?
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoThey're supposed to exercise their free speech by donating to a super-PAC and not "coordinating" (wink) with them.
- fzeroracer 7y agoThere are legal and not-so legal ways of supporting candidates. The FEC explicitly lays out what you can and cannot do. And generally speaking, a candidate requesting aid from a foreign entity in order to undermine an election is illegal. You're going to have to better establish how Twitter is violating the FEC rules if you want to compare the two.
- username90 7y agoTwitter interfering with foreign elections has nothing to do with FEC.