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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: 2) by bob_super on Monday October 30 2017, @05:02PM (1 child)

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday October 30 2017, @05:02PM (#589531)

    I've been amazed in the past at various reports of corruption where the dollar numbers were unexpectedly low (people making 6-7 figures taking 4-5 figures bribes for end-of-career moves). I've always wondered if it's because that's all that could be proven, or people are just that greedy.
    In the case of twitter, it's interesting that RT, for that $1.5M Twitter wanted, could have easily hired over a hundred people to post day and night...

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by NewNic on Monday October 30 2017, @06:29PM

    by NewNic (6420) on Monday October 30 2017, @06:29PM (#589580) Journal

    It shows that one of the following is true:

    1. There are a lot more bribes that could not be found or proven
    2. It does not require intelligence to rise to a position where one can earn large amounts.
    3. Greed dominates everything for some people.
    4. Some people with large incomes live paycheck to paycheck, and the small bribes still have a significant impact to their personal feelings of wealth (this is really a subset of 2. above).

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    lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory