At that time they created a bunch of spammy noise which caused the social media businesses significant expense.
They did that in order to run their foreign interference in US elections agenda, and their foreign agenda of late; and we don't like foreign interference in our elections either.
Note the fathers of the sarcastic TV show South Park, all bouncing around on their satellite internet access.
> A high-speed covert tunnel that disguises TCP traffic as SMTP email communication to bypass Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) firewalls