Twitter is banning all political advertising from its service, saying social media companies give advertisers an unfair advantage in proliferating highly targeted, misleading messages.
Twitter Inc. founder and Chief Executive Jack Dorsey announced Wednesday that his company’s social media platform — in pointed contrast to Facebook — will stop running political advertising worldwide., he wrote that online political ads “present entirely new challenges to civic discourse,” including “machine learning-based optimization of messaging and micro-targeting, unchecked misleading information, and deep fakes. All at increasing velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale.
Facebook is facing criticism over its policy of allowing politicians to run ads that contain misinformation.
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