Jack Dorsey attempt to entice new users, since the number of tweets per day had dropped to about 300 million in January 2016 compared to about 500 million in September 2013 and its peak of 661 million in August 2014. On November 22, 2016, Dorsey was briefly suspended from his own Twitter user account with 3.9 million followers. After restoring the account, Dorsey tweeted the suspension was due to an "internal mistake". In February 2017, Dorsey and Executive Chairman Omid Kordestani matched a $530,000 donation to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) raised by Twitter staffers. Their match brought the total donation
Fake news website Russian news, propaganda, and inflamed conspiracy theories. The party's site "TzeTze" had 1.2 million Facebook fans and shared fake news and pieces supportive of Putin cited to Russia-owned sources including "Sputnik News". "TzeTze" plagiarized the Russian sources, and copied article titles and content from "Sputnik". TzeTze, another site critical of Renzi called "La Cosa", and a blog by Grillo—were managed by the company Casaleggio Associati which was started by Five Star Movement co-founder Gianroberto Casaleggio. Casaleggio's son Davide Casaleggio owns and manages "TzeTze" and "La Cosa", and medical advice website "La Fucina" which markets anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and medical cure-all