Twitter Will Ban All Political Ads, a direct shot at Zuck
Twitter will no longer allow political advertising on its platform, founder Jack Dorsey announced Wednesday out of concern for the spread of misinformation.
“Why? A few reasons ... ” Dorsey began a long string of tweets.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.That still leaves the insidious rumors and inuendo, and bots pretending to be people.
BitFlipper
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Oct 31, 2019
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Read Dorsey's tweets in the article.
"Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-based optimization of messaging and micro-targeting, unchecked misleading information, and deep fakes. All at increasing velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale."
@LiterateHiker I'm talking about the communication that can't be identified as advertising.
Twitter is working to identify and delete bots, too.
This is 100% a good thing. If this forces Zuckerberg to do the same to compete, Democracy wins!
DarthWoody89
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Oct 30, 2019
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Lots of Trump's tweets could be construed as ads, will they be banned ? 
FearlessFly
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Oct 30, 2019
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Unfortunately, Trump does not pay Twitter for his daily rants. It appears that they will continue to be "aired."
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