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Well, for example, the claim is that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had their Twitter accounts hacked as well. You could easily have put words in their mouth that
by rossdavidh 6y ago
Well, for example, the claim is that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had their Twitter accounts hacked as well. You could easily have put words in their mouth that would tip the electoral balance, especially if it happened a few months from now. Being able to discredit a candidate, or confuse their followers, has national security implications.
- SmokeyHamster 6y agoEh, not really. According to this (https://www.omnicoreagency.com/twitter-statistics/ https://www.omnicoreagency.com/twitter-statistics/), "There are 48.35 million monthly active Twitter users in the US." That means the vast majority of Americans do not use Twitter. And according to this (https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-twitter-users/ https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-tw...), about 80% of the tweets are made by 10% of the users, and most of them are disproportionately young Democrats. So Twitter is an echochamber within an echochamber. Were Biden's or Obama's accounts to be hacked, the only effect it would have would likely be with only the extreme fringe of the party. Most Democrats, and virtually all Republicans, would never see it.