State Department Official Urged Twitter to Delete Accounts, Newly Released File Shows

A State Department official urged Twitter to delete accounts that he claimed were controlled by the Russian government, a newly disclosed file shows.
“The below are some Russian government controlled accounts that I think you will want to look into and delete,” Mark Lenzi, a security engineer, wrote in a 2020 email to an official at the social media platform.
Lenzi said he was able to ascertain that the accounts were Russian-controlled because of “obvious mistakes (including grammar) that don’t make any sense if you were really a Republican,” as well as “distinct increases in their tweeting around the Iowa caucuses and [New Hampshire] primary.”…}