The "Russian collusion" crusade took a bizarre turn yesterday when Twitter, apparently in the absence of any tangible evidence that Kremlin spies exploited the social media service to undermine the 2016 election, decided to publicly disclose the exact amount of advertising revenue it received from Russia Today during 2016. It's unclear what that disclosure was intended to accomplish since even Twitter says the ads were directed at "followers of mainstream media and primarily promoted RT Tweets regarding news stories" which hardly seems like an attempt to stage a coup.
Not surprisingly, it only took Russia's communications regulator a couple of hours to respond to Twitter's move by threatening to crack down CNN's operations in Russia, an outlet which the regulator says is "violating Russian media law." Per Reuters:
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