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It's a massive win for Bloomberg. The discussion about paid advertising has now shifted from "Bloomberg is a bad actor" to "Twitter/Facebook are bad actors"
by TAForObvReasons 7y ago
It's a massive win for Bloomberg. The discussion about paid advertising has now shifted from "Bloomberg is a bad actor" to "Twitter/Facebook are bad actors"
- kelnos 7y agoI don't think so. If the ads ended with "Paid for by Bloomberg for President", it may have been ok under Twitter's rules, which seems entirely reasonable.
- TAForObvReasons 7y agoYou're missing the point. The discussion around the paid ads shifted from "Bloomberg is trying to buy the election" to "Twitter/Facebook are only ok with political ads as long as they are seeing some of the action". The former is awful for Bloomberg, the latter is awful for the companies.
- lern_too_spel 7y agoThey did end with a disclosure. The Twitter rule being violated is against mass copy-pasting tweets.