Twitter Formalizes Its Policies on Political Advertising

CEO Jack Dorsey revealed the ban via tweet late last month

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey revealed in a late-October tweetstorm that the social network would no longer accept political ads, and Friday, Twitter released a more formal policy on the issue.

Promotion of political content is banned globally, and the company defined political content as “content that references a candidate, political party, elected or appointed government official, election, referendum, ballot measure, legislation, regulation, directive or judicial outcome.”

The policy also applies to ads that contain references to political content, such as appeals for votes, solicitation of financial support and advocacy for or against any of the examples listed above.

Candidates, political parties, elected government officials and appointed government officials are not allowed to run ads of any type on the platform.

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