“The protests, especially in the beginning in 2014, relied on trust that extended to Twitter and it’s fair to say that the protests would not have been as strong as they were if not for Twitter,” Mckesson, who unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Baltimore in 2016, told the Post-Dispatch. “Now we know that Russia took advantage of that trust and intimacy that we leveraged for good in the street. I’m still thinking about how we, as users, prevent this from derailing our work in the future.”