Twitter announces it will stop taking political advertisements: 'Political message reach should be earned, not bought'

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In a surprise move, Twitter head Jack Dorsey announced Wednesday that Twitter will stop taking political advertisements on a platform-wide basis.

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"We've made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons…" he began, indicating with an emoji that a thread was about to ensue.

Dorsey ultimately said that political ads remove options from his users, versus seeking out content or content creators on their own. "While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politics, where it can be used to influence votes to affect the lives of millions."

"We considered stopping only candidate ads, but issue ads present a way to circumvent. Additionally, it isn't fair for everyone but candidates to buy ads for issues they want to push. So we're stopping these too," Dorsey added, promising to share a final policy by November 15.Facebook has chosen to take its handling of political ads in an opposing direction, in spite of introducing its own verified news section and promising all non-political ads would be heavily fact checked.

"From a business perspective, the very small percent of our business that is made up of our political ads does not come anywhere close to justifying the controversy that this incurs for our company," Zuckerberg told members of the House Financial Services Committee during his

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Thank you Twitter !!!!!!

Don't Believe It! We'll see.....

Check it out, this Twitter account called for it yesterday, and today it happened, coincidence? You be the judge:

Good!!!

Yeah DT has hundreds of millions and the Dems have about $500 bucks between them. I think we know why

not really tho, we just sort became the purple party because red and blue could not stop loving each other and we merged seamlessly to become America United

Most Democrat candidates are running out of money anyway

Lol in other words, let leftist media overlords completely control what gets published. Sure Jan.

YOU HEAR THAT ZUCKERBERG!

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