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Twitter to ban all political advertising, raising pressure on Facebook

Social network’s move comes as Facebook faces controversy over ads that promote misinformation

Jack Dorsey found the perfect way for Twitter to be politically neutral — not being a vehicle for spreading political misinformation and lies — don’t run any political ads 👍 Trump2020 👎

Twitter will ban all political advertising, the company’s CEO has announced, in a move that will increase pressure on Facebook over its controversial stance to allow politicians to advertise false statements.

The new policy, announced via Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account on Wednesday, will come into effect on 22 November and will apply globally to all electioneering ads, as well as ads related to political issues. The timing means the ban will be in place in time for the UK snap election.

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…

— jack @jack 4:05 PM · Oct 30, 2019

Read Dorsey’s reasons for ban political ads.

Here’s the headline from conservative news site, The Washington Times:

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Jack Dorsey found the perfect way for Twitter to be politically neutral — not being a vehicle for spreading political misinformation and lies — don’t run any political ads 👍 Trump2020 👎

Read Dorsey’s reasons for ban political ads.

“Facebook employees pen letter to Zuckerberg ripping company allowance of misinformation in ads”