Twitter is reversing its ban on political ads

> We believe that cause-based advertising can facilitate public conversation around important topics.

No. What Twitter knows is that they're desperate for revenue and what Twitter believes is that they'll get it from political advertising.

This is less about "facilitat[ing] public conversation around important topics" and more about facilitating revenue opportunities. But it will further hasten the platform's race to the bottom as users are spammed with political ads.

Engadget link used in submission since it has no paywall, unlike the Washington Post[0] and New York Times[1].

Apparently, there was quite a discussion[2] here back in 2019 when Twitter banned political advertising.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/03/twitter...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/technology/twitter-politi...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21401973

Twitter to ban political advertising (twitter.com/jack) 2447 points by coloneltcb on Oct 30, 2019 1025 comments