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profstasiak on Oct 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter to ban political advertising

For FB political ads make about 1% of revenue, if I am calculating correctly (source https://articles2.marketrealist.com/2019/05/why-facebook-con...)

I know you asked for Twitter but I guess it's similar. Zuckerberg also considered dropping political ads altogether, as they are controversial

dopamean on Oct 30, 2019 [–]

I think Zuckerberg actually stated this recently somewhere. That political ads may not even reach 1% of revenue.

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