Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Announces End to Political Ads

Jack Dorsey is putting an end to political ads on Twitter.

The 42-year-old co-founder and CEO of Twitter made the announcement on Wednesday (October 30).

“We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought,” he wrote.

“While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politics, where it can be used to influence votes to affect the lives of millions. Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-based optimization of messaging and micro-targeting, unchecked misleading information, and deep fakes. All at increasing velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale,” he went on to write.

“We considered stopping only candidate ads, but issue ads present a way to circumvent. Additionally, it isn’t fair for everyone but candidates to buy ads for issues they want to push. So we’re stopping these too.”

While many users sent praise Jack‘s way upon the announcement, Donald Trump‘s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, slammed the decision in a statement.

“Twitter just walked away from hundreds of millions of dollars of potential revenue, a very dumb decision for their stockholders. Will Twitter also be stopping ads from biased liberal media outlets who will now run unchecked as they buy obvious political content meant to attack Republicans? This is yet another attempt to silence conservatives, since Twitter knows President Trump has the most sophisticated online program ever known.”

See Jack‘s tweet thread inside…