The timing of the campaign targeting me and my alleged bias suggested the attacks were part of a well-planned strategy. But the success of a strategy aimed at forcing social media companies to reconsider their choices may not require demonstrating actual wrongdoing. What happened to me was part of a calculated effort to make Twitter reluctant to moderate Mr. Trump in the future and to dissuade other companies from taking similar steps. of Twitter, overruled Trust and Safety’s recommendation that Mr. Trump’s account should be banned because of several tweets, including one that attacked Vice President Mike Pence. So Twitter only disclosed the campaign over a year later, without fingering the Indian government as the perpetrator.

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Persons: Rich Bond, Trump, Jack Dorsey, Mike Pence, Marjorie Taylor Greene, —, Vladimir Putin Organizations: Republican, Capitol, Twitter, Apple, Google Locations: Silicon, TikTok, India, Moscow