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Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising

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Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising

By ‎@policy‎
Thursday, 26 October 2017

Twitter has made the policy decision to off-board advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, effective immediately. This decision was based on the retrospective work we've been doing around the 2016 U.S. election and the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that both RT and Sputnik attempted to interfere with the election on behalf of the Russian government. We did not come to this decision lightly, and are taking this step now as part of our ongoing commitment to help protect the integrity of the user experience on Twitter. Early this year, the U.S. intelligence community named RT and Sputnik as implementing state-sponsored Russian efforts to interfere with and disrupt the 2016 Presidential election, which is not something we want on Twitter.

This decision is restricted to these two entities based our internal investigation of their behavior as well as their inclusion in the January 2017 DNI report. This decision does not apply to any other advertisers. RT and Sputnik may remain organic users on our platform, in accordance with the Twitter Rules. Twitter has also decided to take the $1.9 million we are projected to have earned from RT global advertising since they became an advertiser in 2011, which includes the $274,100 in 2016 U.S.-based advertising that we highlighted in our September 28 blog post, and donate those funds to support external research into the use of Twitter in civic engagement and elections, including use of malicious automation and misinformation, with an initial focus on elections and automation. We will have more details to share on this disbursement soon.
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RT and Sputnik media, both wholly owned by the Kremlin, constitute Russia's main international propaganda vehicles.

The two propaganda outlets are both managed by regime insider Margarita Simonyan who sits on the Board of Vladimir Putin's Reelection Committee.

Related: The Moscow Times | RT Refuses U.S. Request to Register as Foreign Agent
 
Watch Twitter change it's tune when RT and Sputnik eant to run some ads that support a Democrat.
 
apdst said:
Watch Twitter change it's tune when RT and Sputnik eant to run some ads that support a Democrat.
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Um you do realize that both twitter and facebook have not been partisan at all in this investigation, and have in fact done as little as they possibly can so far to avoid alienating their users and to keep their mission to "connect the world." This is the first major step towards some type of policy reform inside either of the companies.

Besides I don't think RT much likes Democrats and since when is it OK for a Russian media organization to buy ads to influence American politics? Do you have any nifty one liners to the answers of my question?
 
NeverTrumpGOP said:
Um you do realize that both twitter and facebook have not been partisan at all in this investigation, and have in fact done as little as they possibly can so far to avoid alienating their users and to keep their mission to "connect the world." This is the first major step towards some type of policy reform inside either of the companies.

Besides I don't think RT much likes Democrats and since when is it OK for a Russian media organization to buy ads to influence American politics? Do you have any nifty one liners to the answers of all my questions?
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Yeah...ok...lol!
 
Rogue Valley said:
Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising



RT and Sputnik media, both wholly owned by the Kremlin, constitute Russia's main international propaganda vehicles.

The two propaganda outlets are both managed by regime insider Margarita Simonyan who sits on the Board of Vladimir Putin's Reelection Committee.

Related: The Moscow Times | RT Refuses U.S. Request to Register as Foreign Agent
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It was funny when RT outed Twitter soon after this announcement by coming forward with the claim that Twitter had approached RT in 2016 to do a partnership in election coverage. :lol:
 
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