Twitter’s efforts to clean up its political advertising continued with Thursday’s announcement that two advertisers have been banished.
Twitter Public Policy announced in a blog post that it will no longer accept advertising from accounts owned by Russia Today and Sputnik due to findings by the U.S. intelligence community that those companies attempted to interfere with last November’s U.S. presidential elections.
The company also said it will donate the $1.9 million it is estimated to have earned from RT since it became an advertiser on the social network in 2011—including $274,100 in U.S.-based
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