Twitter Removes Its 'No Political Ads' Policy Ahead of the 2024 Election

[Eugene]

Source: Gizmodo

Twitter, rebranded as X, is bringing political ads back to its platform for the first time since 2019, the company announced on Tuesday. The move comes ahead of the 2024 presidential election and Twitter claims it is hiring employees to expand Twitter’s safety and election teams.

The company claims it will battle any misinformation pushed by the political advertisements, despite Musk having laid off much of the staff who monitored false information, hateful conduct, and targeted harassment. But in light of the elections, Twitter claims it is necessary to allow political ads on its platform so people can “talk about their interests in real-time”—and Twitter can get paid while they do that talking, of course.

“We’re updating this policy to make sure we strike the right balance between tackling the most harmful types of content—those that could intimidate or deceive people into surrendering their right to participate in a civic process—and not censoring political debate,” Twitter said in a blog post.

Former Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, implemented the rule prohibiting political ads in response to accusations against Facebook for profiting from the spread of misinformation. At the time, Facebook did not fact-check political ads.

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By Nikki Main
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[thesquanderer]

1. X cannot afford to turn away a single advertising dollar. n/t

[gab13by13]

2. Meh, the ruble isn't worth much today.

[kimbutgar]

3. So all the Maggots can enjoy

But the rest of will pass.

[Comfortably_Numb]

4. Can you smell the Nazi loving bullshit in this story?? It stunk up my living room. To wit:

The company claims it will battle any misinformation pushed by the political advertisements, despite Musk having laid off much of the staff who monitored false information, hateful conduct, and targeted harassment.

How stupid does Eloon think we are?

[Mr.Bill]

5. I wonder if this was a condition for Trump

to start posting there again.

[Roy Rolling]

6. Opt out of ads

Every right-wing ad I see on Twitter I mark as “not interested in this ad”.

I’m teaching their algorithms that I won’t buy their advertiser’s products and services.

Elmo can’t defeat the “invisible hand of the marketplace” on this one.😂😂

[FakeNoose]

16. Does that really work? I don't think it does

I used to do the same thing on Facebook and it never seemed to make a difference. Now I'm gone from Facebook for a number of reasons, including the advertising, but that's only one of them. I think they "opted" ME out.

[Roy Rolling]

17. It's cathartic

It doesn’t do anything but tell Twitter’s computers I don’t want this advertising which means less future advertising revenue for that advertiser because of fewer views.

Me, one viewer among millions of other people. So, yeah, in reality it does nothing statistically by itself.

But it’s all I can do so I do it. 😂

[ZonkerHarris]

7. looking forward to blocking all the gop ads

elon is desperate for any cash

[Initech]

8. What could possibly go wrong?

[Red Mountain]

9. They'll handle it poorly

and drive more people away.

Right wing lunacy gets a lot of attention but doesn't pay the bills.

[PortTack]

11. Someone pointed out that the right isn't interested if they have no one to rail against..an

Enemy to push back against i.e. we on the left. If we keep marking stuff as not interested and they have no one to push against, we’ll then it just becomes a house of cards

[xocetaceans]

10. X equals "Elon's Wealth-Inspired Dumpster Fire of Arrogance: Now with 'Free(dumb)' Speech for MAGA!"

n/t

[SouthernDem4ever]

12. He doesn't care about even discourse or correct information

he only cares about money.

[sellitman]

13. I'm off the Eloon cesspool so I could care less

[JI7]

14. Is it worth advertising on there ?

with limited access and less users ?

[CentralMass]

15. X"chitter.

[4lbs]

18. That will be a loud echo chamber for those ads

Didn't Xitter already shed millions of its users to other sites because of the smell of Musk?

I recall something like 30 million people signed onto Threads within the first day of availability. Also, something like 102 million after 3 days.

Then there are other sites more decentralized like Mastodon and Bluesky (which was championed by Jack Dorsey).

The ones that stayed are already mostly right-wingers, and umm.... OnlyFans wannabes.
In my Xitter feed I have lots of young women posting scantily-clad selfies.

Not really a complaint, just an observation. Heh. I don't post on that site anymore anyway, and rarely have done so in the first place, even before it was infected by Elon.

I haven't done social media in more than a year in any case, and likely won't be an avid user of it, in any form.

So, those political ads really won't bring in anyone that isn't already right-wing.

[AlGorerhythm]

19. Ronan Farrow is promoting a year-long investigation of Eloon.

It's particularly scary how dependant our nation is on Mr Musk. His Space X is currently the only way to get astronauts to and from the ISS.

He currently controls about 80% of the charging stations in the US. Any green energy policies need Eloon's blessings.

Stable Mabel has admitted to taking ketamine (which causes erratic behavior). His staff say he has been acting increasingly unhinged. He suffers from mood swings and public breakdowns.

This damaged little man-baby controls a huge social media platform, dictates our space program and owns the future of electrical vehicles.

[infullview]

21. MAGAts won't have much money for ads

They're spending all their cash for legal fees for the Donald and co.