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posted by mrpg on Monday October 30 2017, @12:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the Вы-говори́те-по-ру́сски? dept.

After RT published excerpts from Twitter's "limited offer" to spend millions on US election marketing, the company abruptly banned all advertising from the news network. This makes full disclosure and transparency imperative, so here goes.

On Thursday, the micro-blogging platform announced a policy decision to ban ads from RT and Sputnik, citing alleged meddling in the 2016 US election.

It followed Twitter's report implying that RT was trying to influence US public opinion, crucially without providing context that virtually all news media organizations spend money on advertising their news coverage.
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RT was thereby forced to reveal some details of the 2016 negotiations during which Twitter representatives made an exclusive multi-million dollar advertising proposal to spend big during the US presidential election, which was turned down.

Having since been banned, and in order to set the record straight, we are publishing Twitter's presentation and details of the offer in full.

Lenin said it: "The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @12:39PM (12 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @12:39PM (#589416)

    Just look at Trump's twitter account. There are some "prominent" accounts supporting his delusions there that say they are "Truth Seeker" and "Living in midwest", yet, somehow, they seem to post shit all night and go to sleep for few hours when people in Moscow go to sleep...

    These "social media" sites are really fucked up. And the sheeple believe "news" on those platforms. Fucking worse than idiocracy.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @01:35PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @01:35PM (#589428)

    You've got my curiosity now...What are the specific Twitter names you're talking about?

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by JNCF on Monday October 30 2017, @02:07PM

      by JNCF (4317) on Monday October 30 2017, @02:07PM (#589434) Journal

      As if Russian operatives wouldn't be smart enough to shitpost at night, and midwestern Americans never have odd sleeping habits. I'm not ruling out Russian Twitter accounts posing as Americans (I suspect the "great" powers of our time all play this game), but a handful of examples that match GP's criteria would be thoroughly unconvincing to me.

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @02:34PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @02:34PM (#589447)

      it would be far simpler to answer you if you'd asked for people who seem sane and sincere. but you knew that, right?

      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @03:32PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @03:32PM (#589472)

        Well, you said there were some prominent accounts with some very specific properties, and I'm curious to see them for myself. I'm not saying they don't exist, but if you make a claim, you should be able to back it up when asked. Otherwise you should have no problem with all the people who claim things about, e.g. God and religion.

    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday October 30 2017, @06:21PM

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday October 30 2017, @06:21PM (#589574) Journal

      You've got my curiosity now...What are the specific Twitter names you're talking about?

      Oops, forgot to turn off Location Services! [reddit.com]

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @02:17PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @02:17PM (#589442)

    Conservatives in the midwest have trouble posting during daytime hours. They mostly have jobs.

    Antifa can post all day every day.

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @04:32PM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @04:32PM (#589508)

      Then how do you explain TMB, Khallow, Runaway, Jmorris, Frojack, etc? Oh right, they're Antifree and are probably given a bonus for shit posting here :D

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @04:41PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @04:41PM (#589514)

        Seriously . . . I see a lot more posts in this very article from conservatives than from liberals, most of whom are from the U.S. or at least talk like they are, when it is morning/noon in the U.S.

        • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @06:08PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @06:08PM (#589565)

          Tech workers. They get paid to sit on their asses in front of a screen and pretend they're working.

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 30 2017, @07:09PM (2 children)

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday October 30 2017, @07:09PM (#589604) Homepage Journal

        Yup. The Russians pay me five times what SN does.

        --
        My rights don't end where your fear begins.
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @07:57PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @07:57PM (#589622)

          Russia? Lol, nono you are obviously getting your kickbacks from Anthony Weiner, but he has Gary Johnson deliver them.