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Twitter Will Show Who Pays For Ads and How Much They Spend (bloomberg.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the transparency-rules dept.

Twitter will show detailed information about advertisers in an attempt to combat meddling in future elections. You will now be able to search for a Twitter account and see all the ads it has run in the past seven days. "For U.S. political advertisers, users will be able to see billing information, ad spending, demographic targeting data and the number of times tweets have been viewed," reports Bloomberg. From the report: The changes are part of Twitter's broader efforts to clean up its service after lawmakers berated the company for failing to discover Russian influence peddling through fake accounts and divisive ads during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Earlier this week, the company began requiring more authentication from users. In May, it rolled out stricter rules that require advertisers running political campaign ads for federal elections to identify themselves and certify they are located in the U.S. The company has also banned ads from accounts owned by Russia Today and Sputnik.

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  1. Thanks Trump by Kunedog · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just another in a long line of longstanding issues that got zero coverage before the media started pretending that "Trump did it" or that it happened because of Trump.

    1. Re:Thanks Trump by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 1, Insightful

      It got attention because of Russia meddling in US politics. Don't be obtuse.

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    2. Re:Thanks Trump by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      No one would have cared that Russia meddled if the "right person" had gotten elected. To date, no one STILL cares about the meddling that Clinton did

  2. Re:Excuses for a traitor by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you voted for Hillary, she committed the greatest of all crimes during an election, rigging one. The whole thing, from Email servers, to DNC hacked Emails, to tarmac meetings, to Deep State spying was all exposing her for the crimes she and others on her direct behalf were committing (and some are continuing to this day).

    The ONLY thing so far to come out of the Trump/Russia Collusion story is ... Hillary paid for FSB sponsored dirt on Trump, the Deep State used that to spy on his campaign, and have lied and obfuscated to cover it all up (to no avail). And you're convinced Trump is the bad guy.

    I didn't vote for the guy for a variety of reasons, but seeing the twisting liberals and democrat hacks are going through backfiring left and right only makes me giggle in delight.

    Hillary is a lifelong political criminal. I'm glad she lost. Maybe you can nominate her again ... I hear 3rd time is a charm.

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