{"id":9763,"date":"2017-10-26T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/twitter-bans-russia-today-and-sputnik-from-advertising-on-its-service.html"},"modified":"2017-10-26T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T15:19:00","slug":"twitter-bans-russia-today-and-sputnik-from-advertising-on-its-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/twitter-bans-russia-today-and-sputnik-from-advertising-on-its-service.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter bans Russia Today and Sputnik from advertising on its service"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Twitter has banned<\/a> Russian media companies\u00a0Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik from advertising on its service after it found that both had \u201cattempted to interfere with the [2016 U.S.] election on behalf of the Russian government\u201d using the social network.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis decision was based on the retrospective work we\u2019ve been doing around the 2016 U.S. election and the U.S. intelligence community\u2019s conclusion that both RT and Sputnik attempted to interfere with the election on behalf of the Russian government,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n

Twitter confirmed that the two media firms are the only ones that it found to have tried to interfere with the election. While it has banned both outlets from running ads, it will allow them to retain their accounts on the service \u201cin accordance with the Twitter Rules.\u201d<\/p>\n

It added that it will donate the revenue it has received from RT advertising efforts \u2014 which it puts at $1.9 million to date \u2014 to fund research into the use of its service in civic engagement and elections. The company promised to share more details on that soon.<\/p>\n

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Off-boarding advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re donating all projected earnings ($1.9mm) to support external research into the use of Twitter in elections, including use of malicious automation and misinformation. https:\/\/t.co\/zIxfqqXCZr<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 jack (@jack) October 26, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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To add fuel to the fire, RT\u2019s head of social media earlier suggested Twitter had encouraged the media outlet to run advertising around the election.<\/p>\n

The microblogging platform has been swept into the issue of how the internet was used to influence the 2016 election, which started out with major questions asked of Facebook<\/a> after a\u00a0Director of National Intelligence report in January found evidence<\/a> of a campaign led out of Russia.<\/p>\n

Twitter provided information to Congress last month<\/a>\u00a0and, following\u00a0a bipartisan Congressional bill proposing new regulations for online ads<\/a>, it pledged to be more transparent over political ads and electioneering with a new system. Not only will political ads on the service be labeled accordingly, but Twitter has created a transparency center<\/a> that details political ads running on Twitter, the content\/creatives behind them, how long they have run and who they are targeted at.<\/p>\n

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