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Twitter is banning all political ads starting November 22nd, according to tweets by the company’s CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday.
The company’s decision comes after weeks of Facebook stumbling over the same issue. Earlier this month, Joe *****’s 2020 presidential campaign penned letters to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube asking that they refuse to run false or misleading political ads. *****’s campaign had become the target of a series of ads placed by President Donald *****’s reelection campaign that made baseless claims regarding the ***** family’s relationship with the Ukrainian government.
“This isn’t about free expression,” Dorsey said. “This is about paying for reach. And paying to increase the reach of political speech has…