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No, the tweet cannot be attributed to Biden, however the retric of "vote for me and I will give you 'free' stuff" can be. This has been a consistent message on the part of Democrats for decades. This is how Obama was elected twice, and will likely play a large role in Biden's messaging.
To my knowledge, no elected/public offical's account was affected. According to Twitter, several employees were the subject of successful social engineering attacks and the attacker was able to use these employees' system access to gain control of certain users' accounts. My guess is that elected/public officials have additional/seperate security that other accounts do not have. Overall, this is very embarrassing for Twitter.
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Heh, got it. Just wanted to make sure that we weren't going to attack Biden for something that totally is out of his hands and is totally not his fault.
Totally looks really bad on Twitter though. I'm assuming there was some sort of bribe or just con job on the twitter employees (as ya know, you cant always trust Twitters statement that they're putting out directly)
But yes, this shows that public officials and those with larger followings need more protections on their account, and employees of the platform need less control of posting on these peoples accounts and such. Hopefully changes will be in the works.