Twitter Seeks Out Political Advertisers
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Jack Dorsey banned political ads on Twitter in 2019 because he saw them as harmful to public discourse. New management sees them differently – as desperately needed revenue.
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Twitter (or X, pick your poison) is aggressively courting political ads on its platform. This marks a giant culture shift from the heady reign of founder Jack Dorsey, who banned political advertising on Twitter in 2019. Seeing as Twitter users already add copious notes that fact-check ads for consumer products on the platform, you gotta figure they won't hold back on political ads...
Source Fool.com
