Twitter is banning all ads from Russian news agencies RT and Sputnik effective immediately

[applegrove]

by Natasha Bertrand at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-banning-all-ads-from-russian-news-agencies-rt-and-sputnik-2017-10

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Twitter announced on Thursday that it would ban all advertisements from the Russian news agencies RT and Sputnik.

"Twitter has made the policy decision to off-board advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, effective immediately," the company wrote in a statement posted on its blog.

"This decision was based on the retrospective work we've been doing around the 2016 U.S. election and the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that both RT and Sputnik attempted to interfere with the election on behalf of the Russian government."

RT directed reporters to a lengthy statement published on its website in which it said it "never violated any rules while advertising on Twitter" and "has never spread any sort of deliberate misinformation."

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[applegrove]

1. Now to ban the Raw Street Journal and other sites that are probably russian.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Kind of too late

[BigmanPigman]

3. It's about time! Where is Facebook on this?

[GoCubsGo]

4. Better late than never, I guess.

Let's hope they're more diligent in banning the fake accounts these two agencies are likely to use as replacements, along with all of the various bot accounts.

[Squinch]

5. Good example of closing the barn door after the horses bolt.

And yes, how about all the other outlets that are Russian backed?

[VermontKevin]

6. Are these banned sources here?

[4now]

8. They should be banned here

But I don't know if they are.

[msongs]

7. maybe twitter should just ban itself and rid the internet of lies and rumours spread on it nt

[blueinredohio]

9. Now if they would ban Trump