Twitter has been a servant of the US government and its ruling class at least since 2009, when it changed its maintenance schedule during the "Green Revolution" in Iran (protests following an allegedly stolen election that year) at the request of the US State Department so as to help keep the protests going. It is certainly state-affiliated, and about as independent as old Soviet _Pravda_. However, although _Pravda_ was dull and dogmatic, I don't think it was ever the sort of sewer Twitter has turned out to be.
Twitter has been a servant of the US government and its ruling class at least since 2009, when it changed its maintenance schedule during the "Green Revolution" in Iran (protests following an allegedly stolen election that year) at the request of the US State Department so as to help keep the protests going. It is certainly state-affiliated, and about as independent as old Soviet _Pravda_. However, although _Pravda_ was dull and dogmatic, I don't think it was ever the sort of sewer Twitter has turned out to be.