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Twitter’s Multi-Million Dollar US Election Pitch to RT Revealed in FULL

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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 Thexalon on Monday October 30 2017, @08:24PM (2 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Monday October 30 2017, @08:24PM (#589644)

    No, I'm just saying that all the hue-and-cry about it is largely unwarranted, and drummed up for a very specific reason that has nothing to do with national security.

    What we should do about it is what we should do regardless of the Russians:
    1. Properly secure our voting systems. Using physical media such as pieces of paper that are actually checked before the results are announced.
    2. Teach US citizens all about propaganda techniques and how to avoid succumbing to them. The main reason there isn't a push in this direction is that the US government doesn't want citizens to have an easy time of detecting and avoiding propaganda coming from the US government.

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    The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday October 30 2017, @08:27PM (1 child)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday October 30 2017, @08:27PM (#589648) Journal

    3. Lock the US traitors up. A good start! [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @09:58AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @09:58AM (#589941)

      Do you actually realize how high the bar is for a US treason conviction?

      Do you realize that your behaviour (screaming "TREASON!" at people you don't like) is exactly the reason for said high bar?