Twitter to ban political advertising

Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by Thorrez on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:32PM (#21405506)

I would expect that to require an extremely huge amount of money and be impractical.

Candidates + parties + PACs + lobbying + think tanks + advocacy organizations spent $10B in 2018 in the US, whereas the US almond industry made $12B in 2018. So I expect political spending to not be able to change ad prices very much compared to commercial ad spending.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in...

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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by spunker540 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:09AM (#21409635)

Yeah I very much doubt Trump is wasting his money bidding on impressions for people likely to support Democrats (assuming he can accurately mimic the dems’ targeting) just to slightly raise the cost of Democratic campaigns

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