Twitter Will Ban All Political Ads

      On Wednesday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter would stop running political ads. Dorsey said he believed that political reach "should be earned, not bought." This comes after Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook would allow all forms of political ads, whether or not they had misinformation or not.
      Zuckerberg's position on keeping political ads on Facebook is based on the network being founded based around giving people a voice and also said his company stood for free expression. This decision has received backlash from Democrats, including former vice president and current presidential candidate Joe Biden.
      Meanwhile, Twitter's decision to ban political ads has been criticized by the right. Trump's campaign manager for the 2020 election Brad Parscale said Twitter's choice was a partisan one. In contrast, Democrats like Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez support the ban on political ads. She herself said “if a company cannot or does not wish to run basic fact-checking on paid political advertising, then they should not run paid political ads at all.”
      In addition, Senator Elizabeth Warren called out Zuckerberg for operating what she called a “disinformation-for-profit machine.”
      Both Zuckerberg and Dorsey have made comments on their decisions, criticizing each other without mentioning names. Google, the third website that runs many political ads, has so far been quiet on the issue, and been under less scrutiny about it.

Twitter Will Ban All Political Ads, CEO Jack Dorsey Says

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