POLITICAL ADVERTISING ON SOCIAL MEDIA

About:

• The new policy, details of which will be unveiled next month, would ban ads on political issues as well as from candidates.
  
  
• This is in response to growing criticism over misinformation from politicians on social media.
  
  
• Explaining the ban, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted that while internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politics. he said the reach of political messages should be earned, not bought.
  
  
• News of the ban has divided America's political camps for the 2020 election.
  
  
• Twitter's rival Facebook recently ruled out a ban on political ads.