2019-8-20 00:57 |
Twitter earlier today announced it’s banned more than 900 accounts purported to be linked to a China-sponsored disinformation campaign against the citizens of Hong Kong, now it’s extending its policies to ban advertising from all state-sponsored news sources globally.
The ban will encompass any news-media organization found to be “financially or editorially controlled by the state. ” Cue the jokes about CNN and Fox News from their respective political detractors. The blog post announcing the ban states: We are updating our advertising policies with respect to state media. Going forward, we will not accept advertising from state-controlled news media entities … This is a…
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