Twitter drops the hammer on political ads ahead of 2020 election.
the Kremlin-sponsored Russia Today 15% of its US elections ad inventory. The company does not want a repeat this year.
Twitter’s move comes as Facebook has faced heavy criticism for political ads, which permits candidates to lie according to a policy the company clarified earlier this month. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his executives have defended this move by saying that they do not want the company to be arbiter of truth, and instead will allow the public and media to assess the truth of claims.
“While I worry about an erosion of truth, I don’t think most people want to live in a world where you can only post things that tech companies judge to be 100% true,” Zuckerberg said in a speech earlier this month at Georgetown University. The policy has sparked a backlash from presidential candidates including Elizabeth Warren — who ran a false Facebook ad to underscore what she saw as the policy’s absurdity — and some of the social network’s own employees, who haveIn his Twitter thread, Dorsey took a swipe at Facebook's policy, noting that it is not credible to say"We’re working hard to stop people from gaming our systems to spread misleading info, buuut if someone pays us to target and force people to see their...
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