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  • November 2, 2019 at 5:40 pm #107672
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    Twitter:https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/twitter-bans-political-advertisements-platform-191030202650906.html

    “…”We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought,” said Dorsey, on his personal Twitter account.

    “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,” he added.

    “Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-based optimisation of messaging and micro-targeting, unchecked misleading information, and deep fakes,” said Dorsey. “All at increasing velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale.”

    Eric Ham, a political analyst and author of The GOP Civil War, told Al Jazeera the move would have ramifications across the world.

    “This is huge,” Ham said. “Not only for the business and social media communities but more importantly for the political landscape in the US and across the globe. We are talking about a major vehicle for getting out one’s message now being closed off completely.”

    The decision drew a swift response from the Trump campaign, which said in a statement posted to Twitter that the ban was a “very dumb decision.”
    Pressure on Facebook

    Ham said Twitter’s move was likely to increase pressure on Facebook….see link…”

    November 2, 2019 at 5:56 pm #107673
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    My own take:

    This is a good thing, but it won’t have much impact overall. And I think Mr. Ham is exaggerating the effects, bigly.

    People can still talk politics all they want in their accounts and in other threads. Twitter isn’t banning political speech, just ads. And there’s Facebook and a gazillion other ways to “get the message out.”

    Again, this just a ban on political ads, which none of the platforms seem willing to fact-check to begin with. TV and Radio, OTOH, are required by law to do that.

    What did people do before Twitter? It wasn’t even in existence until July of 2006.

    Just my two cents . . .

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