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