"Somehow it did not cross our mind that in a developed democracy, regular media advertising can be considered suspicious or detrimental activity.”
“By the way, similar campaigns are conducted by the American media in the Russian segment of Twitter. It’ll be very interesting to find out how much they spend on it, who they target and for what purpose,” - Margarita Simonyan
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Warner is one of the most pathetic Russia-gate witch-hunters.
He must not be very bright, because this is the sort of thing that can destroy a career - to be exposed as a raving delusional, following a poorly-conceived narrative cooked up at the last minute by the snake-like John Podesta, of all people, in a desperate attempt to explain his massive fail with Hillary's election.
And now he's been owned by an alt-media hero who has a track record of shooting down pompous liars like Warner.
So when Warner said this:
Warner said he was disappointed in Twitter after the meeting, saying their presentation was “frankly inadequate on almost every level,” according to CBS News.
"The notion that their work was basically derivative, based upon accounts that Facebook had identified, showed [an] enormous lack of understanding from the Twitter team of how serious this issue is, the threat it poses to democratic institutions, and again begs many more questions than they offered," Warner said, adding that the American public had the right to know if any ads that appear on Twitter’s newsfeed were “generated by interests from Americans or generated by interests from, by activities of foreign powers.”
Margarita (Simonyan) answered thus:
“Twitter has just unveiled horrendous information in Congress – that we’ve been spending money on our advertising campaigns, just like every media organization in the world,” said RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan.
“This is forcing us to go a step further and come clean that we also spent money on advertising at airports, in taxis, on billboards, on the Internet, on TV and radio. Even CNN ran our commercials. Somehow it did not cross our mind that in a developed democracy, regular media advertising can be considered suspicious or detrimental activity.”
“By the way, similar campaigns are conducted by the American media in the Russian segment of Twitter. It’ll be very interesting to find out how much they spend on it, who they target and for what purpose,” added Simonyan.
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