Farewell, Twitter political ads.

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.

Airbnb

Airbnb

soda pop sales taxes

some “keep the Internet free” bullshit

another one

lead paint

lead paint again

something about Nancy Pelosi

soda pop taxes again

herbicide

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 facilitates 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.

Bonus links

Stop explaining black box machine learning models for high stakes decisions and use interpretable models instead

We easily ran blatantly misleading ads about hot-button political topics like immigration and gun control, and Facebook failed to catch them

Facebook Allows Prominent Right-Wing Website to Break the Rules

“If it’s not clear already, then it must be said: Facebook is a right-wing company.”

For Some Reason, We Can’t Find a Single Leftist Mark Zuckerberg Invited to His Dinners With Pundits From “Across the Spectrum”

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