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Twitter Strikes Again: Is Criticizing NATO a Crime?

Twitter announced on Feb. 23 that it had taken down 373 accounts on claims that they had violated “platform manipulation” rules. The accounts were based in Iran, Russia, and Armenia. According to Twitter, some of the Russian accounts “amplified narratives that were aligned with the Russian government, while another subset of the network focused on undermining faith in the NATO alliance and its stability.” Oh no! What tragedies would befall the world if “faith in the NATO alliance” were “undermined"?