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> Twitter plays a central role in how we communicate and how news is spread.

The fact a government agency has said this in an official report is saddening.

Can you expand on why it's sad? As someone who doesn't have a twitter account or participate much in social networking sites, it still seems like a true statement at face value for a large part of the population.

It is indeed true. I suppose it's more the juxtaposition of Twitter, which many people (including myself) have come to despise, with the government, which should be impartial about private endeavors (arguably), in the same report about Twitter's security deficiencies related to the election.

It's just a strange pairing, and to me a bit sad that Twitter of all things has become America's backbone of formal communication.

It feels like it could be in Idiocracy. That's all.

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