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blog: Don Marti

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Farewell, Twitter political ads.

30 October 2019

I see that political ads on Twitter are supposedly going to not be a thing any more, so I just wanted to share some that I remembered to save.

You're welcome.

I don't remember getting candidate ads on there, just issues and astroturf. All misleading, of course, because the main benefit of targeted advertising is that it faciliates sending deceptive messages while avoiding law and norms enforcers. I don't remember getting any honest political ads on Twitter, so probably a good move.

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