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Twitter Will Ban All Political Ads, C.E.O. Jack Dorsey Says

  
Via:  al Jizzerror  •  5 years ago  •  13 comments

By:   Kate Conger

Twitter Will Ban All Political Ads, C.E.O. Jack Dorsey Says
“for once, revenue did not win out.”

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Facebook will continue to sell political ads and permit lies, disinformation, and even heavily edited videos can be employed.

Mark Zuckerberg reversed Facebook's policy of fact checking political ads because Facebook is making millions of dollars by permitting the Trump campaign to lie in their ads.   But Facebook does take down political Zuckerberg doesn't like.  They recently took down a political ad that falsely claimed that Zuckerberg endorsed Trump.  Yep, Facebook selectively censors political ads.

Facebook is cashing in with its immoral pay-for-propaganda approach.

I encourage everyone to flip-off Zuckerberg and quit Facebook immediately.

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I'm not a fan of Twitter.  I joined Twitter to troll The Donald.  After about a week Twitter accused me of being a "bot" and suspended my account.  They said the only way I could reactivate my account was to give my personal information to Google.  Since I don't want to give my personal information Google, I can't participate on Twitter.  Fuck 'em.

Butt, even though I hate Twitter, I applaud Twitter's new policy of banning all political ads.


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Twitter Will Ban All Political Ads, C.E.O. Jack Dorsey Says


  • Oct. 30, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter said on Wednesday that it would ban all political ads , putting a spotlight on the power and veracity of online advertising and ramping up pressure on Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, to reverse his hands-off stance.

Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive, said political ads, including manipulated videos and the viral spread of misleading information, presented challenges to civic discourse, “all at increasing velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale.” He said he worried the ads had “significant ramifications that today’s democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle.”

He added that he believed that the reach of political messages “should be earned, not bought.


His move sets up a clash of principle with Facebook and Mr. Zuckerberg, who this month said that he would allow politicians to run any claims — even false ones — in ads on the social network. Mr. Zuckerberg reasoned that Facebook had been founded to give people a voice and said his company stood for free expression. Politicians’ ads, he said, were newsworthy

Facebook has been attacked for that stance by Democrats, including the campaign of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Over the last two weeks, hundreds of Facebook’s own employees also signed a letter to Mr. Zuckerberg asking him to reconsider how the company treated political ads.

But Twitter’s announcement that it would eliminate political ads, starting Nov. 22, prompted immediate attacks from the right. Brad Parscale, Mr. Trump’s campaign manager for the 2020 election, said that Twitter’s decision was a partisan act intended to silence conservatives.



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al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
1  seeder  al Jizzerror    5 years ago

Fuck Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook is evil.

 
 
 
Dean Moriarty
Professor Quiet
2  Dean Moriarty    5 years ago

So on one hand you hate twitter for its censorship of you acting like a bot and on the other hand you applaud their censorship of political ads. 

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
2.1  cobaltblue  replied to  Dean Moriarty @2    5 years ago
other hand you applaud their censorship of political ads.

Political ads are cash driven. Giving your opinion and having it censored is something completely different. You're smarter than that. Ads generate income. 

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
2.2  seeder  al Jizzerror  replied to  Dean Moriarty @2    5 years ago
you hate twitter for its censorship of you acting like a bot

I did NOT "act like a bot".  I never posted the same comment twice.  My behavior on Twitter was the same as my behavior on Newsvine and NewsTalkers.  I posted various original memes and I ridiculed Trump's tweets.  Twitter didn't really think I was a bot, they simply wanted to sell my personal information to Google.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
2.2.1  cobaltblue  replied to  al Jizzerror @2.2    5 years ago
they simply wanted to sell my personal information to Google .

THANK YOU! Jeez louise, who hasn't been getting that??

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al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
2.3  seeder  al Jizzerror  replied to  Dean Moriarty @2    5 years ago
you applaud their censorship of political ads. 

I condemn Facebook changing their approach to political ads.  Facebook had a policy of using an independent third party to fact check all political ads.  That policy seemed fair.

Butt, Facebook changed their policy of fact checking the ads so they can make tons of money from disinformation.  The political ads from the Trump campaign are lies, butt they're million dollar lies, so Zuckerberg decided to permit the political  lies to cash in.  

Butt Facebook will NOT permit some political lies because Zuckerberg doesn't like them.  It appears that Facebook will only permit Trump's lies.  Facebook's selective censorshit sucks ass.

OTOH, Twitter has decided to ban ALL political ads because the fact checking process is very challenging.  Twitter is NOT being selective, they have decided to simply refuse to run political ads.

So, yes, I applaud Twitter's policy of censoring all political lies. 

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
3  cobaltblue    5 years ago

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al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
4  seeder  al Jizzerror    5 years ago

Facebook AND Twitter want your personal information.

Facebook will do their evil data mining and sell the results to anyone who will pay for it (usually advertisers).

Facebook is also making millions by permitting the Trump campaign to use their site to spew their dishonest ads.

Twitter will sell your personal information to Google.

Google will also data mine and sell the results to anyone who will pay for it.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
5  cobaltblue    5 years ago
As Facebook continues to defend its controversial policy that allows politicians to run false advertising, Twitter said Wednesday it is pulling the plug on political ads altogether.

“We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally,” Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted Wednesday. “We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought.”

The new policy, effective Nov. 22, will apply to candidate and issue ads.

“While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politics, where it can be used to influence votes to affect the lives of millions,” Dorsey added.

If that sounds familiar, it’s because online misinformation has been shown to have played a key part in the 2016 U.S. presidential race. Dorsey and the top executives of Facebook and Google all have testified before Congress over Russian misinformation campaigns run on their social media platforms, among other things.

Some are cheering Twitter’s move — which could negatively affect its already   declining revenue   — while also pointing out that the company hasn’t solved its misinformation problem. So far, the company has offered no antidote for politicians who make false statements in their own tweets.

“Rather than taking the Facebook route and letting anarchy ensue, Twitter is taking responsibility,” said Eric Goldman, director of the Santa Clara University School of Law’s High Tech Law Institute. “But it’s still allowing politicians to lie without consequence.”

Goldman said it’s not just about President Trump, whose online megaphone of choice is Twitter.

“Trump is a symptom of the disease,” he said. “The disease is: Politicians will lie if given the chance.” Goldman thinks politicians currently in office shouldn’t be allowed on Twitter or any other platform where they can spread their messages unfiltered.

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If you ask me, Twitter exacerbated Trump's undoing. The Lying-Traitor-In-Chief can't shut his big fat yap. 

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
5.1  seeder  al Jizzerror  replied to  cobaltblue @5    5 years ago
Twitter exacerbated Trump's undoing. The Lying-Traitor-In-Chief can't shut his big fat yap. 

Ever since the inauguration Republicans have complained about Trump's stupid tweets.  Butt Trump is ad dick ted to Twitter and he can't stop embarrassing himself.

He issued this tweet when Obama was president:

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Please notice that he called the Dow Jones the "Dow Joans".

Get that "very big cannon" ready because the Dow had a Yuuuge drop on Feb 5th 2018.

OU economics professor suggests stock market drop not a concern yet

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, a stock market index of 30 major companies, fell almost  1,600 points on Feb. 5 — one of the largest point declines in a single day.

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The Dow Jones average ended down 1,175 on Feb. 5th 2018.

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cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
5.1.1  cobaltblue  replied to  al Jizzerror @5.1    5 years ago

Dow Joans!!! Too fuckin' hilarious!!!! 

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
5.1.2  Trout Giggles  replied to  cobaltblue @5.1.1    5 years ago

It's funny and sad for such a "smart, intelligent businessman".

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
5.1.3  cobaltblue  replied to  Trout Giggles @5.1.2    5 years ago
It's funny and sad for such a "smart, intelligent businessman".

Well, his lawyer Giuliani isn't such a smart man by anyone's standards. While this is off topic I guess, I don't give a shit because it's too damned fuckin' funny to keep to myself:

  • For much of the 2000s, President   Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani billed himself as a high-level security consultant after presiding as mayor of New York during the 9/11 terror attacks.

  • But  NBC News reported  that shortly after being named Trump's cybersecurity adviser in 2017, Giuliani went to an Apple Store to unlock his iPhone after entering the wrong passcode at least 10 times in a row.

  • A former Apple store employee told NBC Giuliani's passcode mistake was "very sloppy," adding, "Trump had just named him as an informal adviser on cybersecurity and here, he couldn't even master the fundamentals of securing your own device."

  • Former FBI cybercrime agents E.J. Hilbert and Michael Anaya both told NBC that Giuliani even going into a "commercial location" to unlock his device was extremely unsafe.

In November, Giuliani accidentally created a hyperlink in one of his tweets ranting about the Mueller probe. A social-media user was quick to purchase the "g-20.in" domain name Giuliani accidentally created in his tweet — and trolled Giuliani by making the link lead to a web page reading, "Donald J. Trump is a traitor to our country."

While Giuliani's digital mishaps may be amusing to some, cybersecurity experts told NBC that Giuliani going to a third-party location for technical help violated the most basic protocol, even an informal White House adviser should follow. 

A former Apple store employee who was present during Giuliani's visit to the Genius Bar   told NBC   that Giuliani's passcode mistake was "very sloppy," adding, "Trump had just named him as an informal adviser on cybersecurity and here, he couldn't even master the fundamentals of securing your own device."

Former FBI cybercrime agents E.J. Hilbert and Michael Anaya both told NBC that Giuliani even going into a "commercial location" to unlock his device was extremely unsafe, and he should have sought assistance from a qualified White House staffer and not a third-party like a Genius Bar employee. 

"It's unnerving to think that this individual has access to the most powerful person in the world and that sensitive communications could be disclosed to people who should not have access to them," Anaya told NBC, further calling it "crazy" Giuliani entrusted his phone to an Apple store.

What a bunch of maroons. 

 
 

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