Facebook vs Twitter on political ads: What Zuckerberg said, how Dorsey responded

Twitter's announcement Wednesday that it'll ban political and problems advertising supplemental a brand new level of friction to its long-running contention with Facebook, that has long-faced quite a month of blowback for refusing to punish candidates for lying in their ads.

The move came every week once Facebook founder and business executive Mark Zuckerberg suffered a broil on Capitol Hill, particularly from Democrats, over his company’s lack of interest in insistence on honesty in political advertising — adding to its issues in Washington because it faces a doable antimonopoly probe and criticism concerning its handling of users' information.

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In saying the new policy, Twitter business executive Jack Dorsey took many apparent shots at the arguments Zuckerberg et al have created for permitting deceptive political ads. during a speech October. seventeen at Georgetown University, Zuckerberg framed the problem in the concert of "free expression" and lease voters, not school firms, to decide politicians' arguments. however Dorsey aforementioned it is a matter of protective democracy within the face of the internet's "increasing rate, sophistication, and overwhelming scale."