This fragment on its own is a bit silly to report on. How was it used? By which government?

There's a huge difference between "government asked to boost a story about who to vote for" and "government asked to boost a tweet about evacuation plans for an incoming hurricane". The context is completely missing.

I don't understand what I'm expected to think of articles that are just "look at this variable name!"

If you're not going to go through the trouble of finding out what the line of code actually does, what's the point?

Hold on! Hold on! Disinformation is something only the evil russians do!!!!11

Yeah, no big surprise here, at least not to anyone who's ever glanced at an American History book and knows what a COINTELPRO is...

That said:

>If you're tired of censorship, cancel culture,

^^^I stopped reading right there^^^