The Twitter spokesperson also notes that while the company broke Washington state's transparency requirements over many years, it also "ended all political advertising in November 2019 in line with our belief that the reach of political speech should be earned and not bought."
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This highlights, once again, the starkly different approaches taken by Twitter and Facebook when it comes to political ads. When he announced Twitter would ban all political ads,
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"Paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today’s democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle. It’s worth stepping back in order to address."https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634377057067008 …
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In contrast, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said his desire to defend "free expression" is the reason his platform keeps selling political ads *and* broadly refrains from fact-checking them.
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The contrast continues this week: Twitter admits it broke Washington state's law on political ads and will pay $100,000 to take responsibility for its actions. Facebook, meanwhile, is presently in Washington state court trying get that same law struck down as unconstitutional.
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So, that's what, a few days of revenue?
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Go Washington state
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A hundred thousand dollars from twitter is couch cash. This is not an appreciable amount by any measure.
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Le chargement semble prendre du temps.
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