Twitter Announces 'Issues Ads' Policy to Stop Manipulation by Politically-Motivated Groups
Social Media Today | August 31, 2018
Twitter will begin labeling in-stream ads from political candidates and those which “advocate for legislative issues of national importance”, in order to provide more transparency over politically-motivated advertising and reduce issue manipulation. As with Facebook, Twitter has taken the broader step of including ‘issues-based’ ads in their definition here, because focussing on ads from candidates themselves would be too narrow.