so in all the news and craziness of late
I wanted to share my #1 favorite tweet from our POTUS that was sent out this weekend
I wanted to share my #1 favorite tweet from our POTUS that was sent out this weekend
Twitter thread
^ who else read this in colbert's imitation-of-trump voice?
"daht daaaht… daht daaaaht…"
"daht daaaht… daht daaaaht…"
Pretty big news IMO
jack @jack
We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons…
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A political message earns reach when people decide to follow an account or retweet. Paying for reach removes that decision, forcing highly optimized and targeted political messages on people. We believe this decision should not be compromised by money.
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While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politics, where it can be used to influence votes to affect the lives of millions.
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Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-based optimization of messaging and micro-targeting, unchecked misleading information, and deep fakes. All at increasing velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale.
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These challenges will affect ALL internet communication, not just political ads. Best to focus our efforts on the root problems, without the additional burden and complexity taking money brings. Trying to fix both means fixing neither well, and harms our credibility.
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For instance, it‘s not credible for us to say: “We’re working hard to stop people from gaming our systems to spread misleading info, buuut if someone pays us to target and force people to see their political ad…well…they can say whatever they want! 😉
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We considered stopping only candidate ads, but issue ads present a way to circumvent. Additionally, it isn’t fair for everyone but candidates to buy ads for issues they want to push. So we're stopping these too.
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We’re well aware we‘re a small part of a much larger political advertising ecosystem. Some might argue our actions today could favor incumbents. But we have witnessed many social movements reach massive scale without any political advertising. I trust this will only grow.
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In addition, we need more forward-looking political ad regulation (very difficult to do). Ad transparency requirements are progress, but not enough. The internet provides entirely new capabilities, and regulators need to think past the present day to ensure a level playing field.
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We’ll share the final policy by 11/15, including a few exceptions (ads in support of voter registration will still be allowed, for instance). We’ll start enforcing our new policy on 11/22 to provide current advertisers a notice period before this change goes into effect.
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A final note. This isn’t about free expression. This is about paying for reach. And paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today’s democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle. It’s worth stepping back in order to address.
jack @jack
We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons…
🧵
A political message earns reach when people decide to follow an account or retweet. Paying for reach removes that decision, forcing highly optimized and targeted political messages on people. We believe this decision should not be compromised by money.
.
While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politics, where it can be used to influence votes to affect the lives of millions.
·
Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-based optimization of messaging and micro-targeting, unchecked misleading information, and deep fakes. All at increasing velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale.
·
These challenges will affect ALL internet communication, not just political ads. Best to focus our efforts on the root problems, without the additional burden and complexity taking money brings. Trying to fix both means fixing neither well, and harms our credibility.
·
For instance, it‘s not credible for us to say: “We’re working hard to stop people from gaming our systems to spread misleading info, buuut if someone pays us to target and force people to see their political ad…well…they can say whatever they want! 😉
·
We considered stopping only candidate ads, but issue ads present a way to circumvent. Additionally, it isn’t fair for everyone but candidates to buy ads for issues they want to push. So we're stopping these too.
·
We’re well aware we‘re a small part of a much larger political advertising ecosystem. Some might argue our actions today could favor incumbents. But we have witnessed many social movements reach massive scale without any political advertising. I trust this will only grow.
.
In addition, we need more forward-looking political ad regulation (very difficult to do). Ad transparency requirements are progress, but not enough. The internet provides entirely new capabilities, and regulators need to think past the present day to ensure a level playing field.
.
We’ll share the final policy by 11/15, including a few exceptions (ads in support of voter registration will still be allowed, for instance). We’ll start enforcing our new policy on 11/22 to provide current advertisers a notice period before this change goes into effect.
.
A final note. This isn’t about free expression. This is about paying for reach. And paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today’s democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle. It’s worth stepping back in order to address.
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Daniel W. Drezner @dandrezner
My Twitter Law degree tells me that “absolute immunity” is the third-greatest amount of immunity, behind only “unlimited immunity” and “I’m Britney, bitch.”
My Twitter Law degree tells me that “absolute immunity” is the third-greatest amount of immunity, behind only “unlimited immunity” and “I’m Britney, bitch.”
https://twitter.com/mr_dave_haslam/status/1192343693581324288?s=21
Johnny Marr silences gossip first appearing on a Morrissey forum that the Smiths might do gigs and "a Morrissey-Marr reunion is closer than ever to becoming a reality" with just four words on Twitter… "Nigel Farage on guitar".
Johnny Marr silences gossip first appearing on a Morrissey forum that the Smiths might do gigs and "a Morrissey-Marr reunion is closer than ever to becoming a reality" with just four words on Twitter… "Nigel Farage on guitar".
Aviation Gin gets the same actress from the infamous peloton commercial… well played
https://twitter.com/VancityReynolds/status/1203118775815622664
https://twitter.com/VancityReynolds/status/1203118775815622664
@HoodlumRIP
JUST IN: Trump signs an Executive Order that officially changes the name of the San Andreas Fault to Barack Obama’s Fault.
JUST IN: Trump signs an Executive Order that officially changes the name of the San Andreas Fault to Barack Obama’s Fault.
palliative wrote:
@HoodlumRIP
JUST IN: Trump signs an Executive Order that officially changes the name of the San Andreas Fault to Barack Obama’s Fault.
Instant follow.
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@HoodlumRIP
JUST IN: Trump signs an Executive Order that officially changes the name of the San Andreas Fault to Barack Obama’s Fault.
Instant follow.
be careful…
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As a gay man I’m not 100% familiar with the human female anatomy but I’m pretty certain they don’t have hooves.
Michael Pope @MichaelLeePope
House of Delegates approves bill defining milk as "the lacteal secretion of a healthy hooved mammal." Vote is 66 to 32 http://bit.ly/2RUFVw4
the cow lobby is super pissed that nuts and other veggies can call their liquid beverage …Milk.
Kinda like the Champagne argument (which I condone, in that situation)
@MLP is a reporter for Virginia Public Radio (didn't even know that existed with the bright glow of WAMU)
As a gay man I’m not 100% familiar with the human female anatomy but I’m pretty certain they don’t have hooves.
Michael Pope @MichaelLeePope
House of Delegates approves bill defining milk as "the lacteal secretion of a healthy hooved mammal." Vote is 66 to 32 http://bit.ly/2RUFVw4
the cow lobby is super pissed that nuts and other veggies can call their liquid beverage …Milk.
Kinda like the Champagne argument (which I condone, in that situation)
@MLP is a reporter for Virginia Public Radio (didn't even know that existed with the bright glow of WAMU)
Abigail Disney . . . damnnnnnn!
i love that #NepotismBarbie is trending. what IS she doing in india?
sweetcell wrote:
i love that #NepotismBarbie is trending. what IS she doing in india?
Bojangles Muldoon
@BojanglesMuldo1
To anyone wondering why DJT is in India:
The Trump Organization has five active projects in India that are in various stages of development.
The value of the five projects is $1.5 billion.
That's why DJT is in India.
Mildly harrowing thread from earlier tonight when Tom Tomorrow severely burned his arm while cooking
Bands FC the maker of awesome band and football club logo mashups had their account suspended…
They are starting over here
https://twitter.com/_bandsfc/status/1233005807559696386?s=21
They are starting over here
https://twitter.com/_bandsfc/status/1233005807559696386?s=21
Peter Hook@peterhook
Looking forward to our first Monaco gig in over 20 years
Looking forward to our first Monaco gig in over 20 years
kosmo wrote:
They are starting over here
thx, but that's what Twitter chose to police?
https://twitter.com/amandamull/status/1233045781734662152?s=20
Amanda Mull
@amandamull
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4h
at no point did I know what the next word in this tweet was going to be
Amanda Mull
@amandamull
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4h
at no point did I know what the next word in this tweet was going to be