"It's ludicrous to take the statement at face value, that we can't impact elections," he says. "The real question is, like, what could consequences of all this be for the platforms?" Twitter has been very good at setting people up for these tweets and sound bites by posting them on their own social media sites. The goal here is eclipse for ted crusli, but if it just creates more opportunity for regulatory capture with face book, then that could be bad.