- Politico, Friday, October 13, 2017 1:24 PM
Twitter reportedly deleted tweets connected to Russia’s manipulation of the network during the last presidential election. “A substantial amount of valuable information held by Twitter is
lost for good,”
Politico reports, citing cybersecurity analysts and other current and former U.S. officials.
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The underlying premise is that tweets can be deleted, which we all know is patently false. Just as people screenshot dumb things that people tweet and quickly delete, so too are tweets that deceive are similarly preserved. I reject the notion that a possible lack of evidence does not absolve the Russians, owing to some nefarious deletion.