Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that political ads will be effectively banned from the platform starting November 22— all in efforts to curb the rampant proliferation of misinformation on social media ahead of the 2020 election.
Yesterday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that political ads will be effectively banned from the platform starting November 22. The ban includes both ads from candidates and issue-centric ads — all in an effort to curb the rampant proliferation of misinformation on social media ahead of the 2020 election. Rather than fact-check political ads, as so many are, Jack Dorsey's solution for Twitter is to get rid of them altogether.
"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," wrote Dorsey."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.
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