Twitter's Changing Its Policy for Political Ads. Here's What You Need to Know

This week Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) announced new requirements for all of its advertising but focused specifically on some changes for its political ads. The changes come in the wake of revelations that Russia meddled in the U.S. election, in part, by purchasing ads on Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and Alphabet's Google, and by creating fake accounts on Twitter.

The company said in a blog post that it would launch a new "transparency center" in the coming weeks which will show users, "who is advertising on Twitter, details behind those ads, and tools to share your feedback with us."

The changes come as a bipartisan bill, called the Honest Ads Act legislation, was proposed by some members of the Senate and Congress just last week.

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