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Twitter bans all ads associated with Russia Today and Sputnik
- Thread starter LiK
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This is huge, but questionable if propaganda wings of other countries will be continued to be allowed. Where will we draw the line?
But they still let @realDonaldTrump post so.. seems like the Twitter version of reddit banning nazi subreddits.
Took long enough. Better late than never, I suppose. Kinda crazy seeing people around me using RT and Sputnik as "reliable and unbiased" news sources.
If that was the case, they should ban ads on AJ+ as well for having the same level of bias and disruption as RT but for the left.
Make things even and get biased news out of the way of telling the truth.
Make things even and get biased news out of the way of telling the truth.
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Eh, Twitter doesn't seem to be super popular over there anyway. Wouldn't be surprised if the Russian government moved to block Twitter like they've been trying to do with YouTube as a response.
This is a good step I guess? But the hope is that they not only correct after-the-fact but are proactive in stopping other orgs/vectors before it's a PR matter they're forced to handle.
Definitely. I know quite a few people that got worked over pretty bad by their propaganda.
The likes of twitter and facebook reallt need to do more with who they are selling advertising services too. The reach they have and with the information they have on people are powerful tools for bad in the wrong hands
Let me just say that your username, coupled with this thread, is fucking glorious.
They wont. Trump's rantings are too much of a draw to Twitter page views
Twitter has been notoriously slow on removing bot accounts for the very reason of keeping their MAU count up
Anyone remember in London recently that Russia Today paid for ads on the tube? Something about the CIA and hacking.
Found it:
Found it:
Time for Russia to get more shell sites and organizations like wikileaks so propaganda can't be traced back to them as easily.
Margarita Simonovna Simonyan the editor-in-chief of RT and the state-owned international news agency Rossiya Segodnya's clapback:
https://twitter.com/M_Simonyan/status/923519609269116928
https://twitter.com/M_Simonyan/status/923519609269116928
Meanwhile, Facebook: *Whistles*
I'm glad that whatever money they made is going to prevent this very thing.
Definitely sounds like Twitter is doing damage control with this. But then again, RT would love to create even more chaos.
I'm glad that whatever money they made is going to prevent this very thing.
Definitely sounds like Twitter is doing damage control with this. But then again, RT would love to create even more chaos.
Want to give props to twitter for taking this small step. Especially the donation part is pretty neat and fair. Hopefully that research yields some results off of which more decisions can be made.
Frankly, I'm not sure twitter has an answer for bots in general. Unless they decide to implement something like Captcha with individual posts, which would probably have massive backlash.
Bit of a follow up. RT published what is essentially a power point presentation of Twitter's advertising pitch to them:
https://www.rt.com/news/407919-twitter-multi-million-offer-rt/
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...sell-millions-of-dollars-in-2016-election-ads
Wonder how Twitter will respond, if at all.
https://www.rt.com/news/407919-twitter-multi-million-offer-rt/
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...sell-millions-of-dollars-in-2016-election-ads
Wonder how Twitter will respond, if at all.