How Twitter Banning Political Ads Will Effect The 2020 Election

Safa Saleh
Nov 7 · 5 min read

Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, had announced on his Twitter account that the social media platform would not longer run political ads. The specific rules of the change would be revealed on November 15th, and the policy would be in effect on the 22nd. He further tweeted, “Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-based optimization…

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Safa Saleh

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Freelancer from New York City. I write about American politics and culture.

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