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Twitter Bans Political Advertising

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday October 31 2019, @03:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the internet-echo-chamber dept.

takyon writes:

Twitter to ban all political advertising

Twitter is to ban all political advertising worldwide, saying that the reach of such messages "should be earned, not bought". "While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politics," company CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted.

Social media rival Facebook recently ruled out a ban on political ads.

News of the ban divided America's political camps for the 2020 election. Brad Parscale, manager of President Donald Trump's re-election campaign, said the ban was "yet another attempt by the left to silence Trump and conservatives". But Bill Russo, spokesman for the campaign to elect Democratic front-runner Joe Biden, said: "When faced with a choice between ad dollars and the integrity of our democracy, it is encouraging that, for once, revenue did not win out."

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by hemocyanin on Thursday October 31 2019, @03:39PM (2 children)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Thursday October 31 2019, @03:39PM (#914171) Journal

    Twitter also goes after the left so basically, this a huge gambit to support the HRC wing of the Democrat party.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @03:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @03:40PM (#914172)

    The cia democrats: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/03/07/dems-m07.html [wsws.org]

    Also known as the "neocons", ie the warmongering republicrats.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @09:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @09:23PM (#914339)

    Twitter’s Head of Censorship, Vijaya Gadde, is responsible for deciding what is considered an illegal political twitter ad. These are some of the Twitter groups she follows: Flip States Blue, Swing Left, SPLC, ACLU, David Hogg, Women's March (actually anti-woman due to Islamic leaders but whatever), Buzzfeed SF, HeForShe, Flippable.