Back in December last year, the Trump administration signed a new law banning the use of Kaspersky Lab software within US government agencies, claiming that it was vulnerable to Russian influence. Even though Kaspersky Labs denied the claims, the ruling was passed and the company’s security software was removed from all government machines.
Twitter also claimed that it was responding to a Department of Homeland Security warning, which claimed that Kaspersky products were a threat to national security posed by Russian government access. It’s worth noting that Twitter has previously banned Russian media outlets Russia Today and Sputnik from its platform, accusing that the publications interfered in the 2016 US Presidential elections.
