The Kremlin is nothing if not reliably vindictive to those that it believes has crossed it.

Twitter better hope it has its story straight (and the paper shredders working overtime) because this looks to me like Putin's minions have been ordered to go right for Twitter's jugular.

I do hate to say this too, but maybe the Kremlin mouthpiece has a point here: many media organisations use ad spending to try to crowbar themselves into election narratives. The difference in the US is the sheer scale of it compared to most western nations that have strict limits on election spending, both domestic and especially foreign.

The US has limits of a sort but they're so huge and so porous this sort of thing was practically inevitable.