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What is twitter actually going to do at a practical level? >> they banned ads by politicians and political parties. there are groups that promote issues like planned parenthood or the nra. they can still promote dark pos on those issues abortion and guns and so on. the rule that they seem to try to play out seems to be a can't be aimed at influencing legislation or court outcome. it's hard to determine because the supreme court and the legislators are citing issues all the time. >> they said these issue ads are fine. they can't be restricted by congress as a matter of free speech. twitter is a...

Facebook's prior moves. these measures would have applied to political ads. so ads mentioning candidates. but this expansion also covers issue ads if you think of issue ads, they cover hot button issues think. gun control or education. as part of this, the company also announced a searchable database where users can see how much the ads cost and also what kinds of people advertisers are targeting. this is all about more transparency. and one more move which is actually pretty interesting, the company is going to start verifying people behind pages if they have a big following. think about page...

Require anyone who wants to run a political or issue ad to identify their identity and location. they'll have to be approved to do this. this is an expansion from facebook's prior moves. these measures would have applied to political ads. this expansion also covers issue ads, which if you think about issue ads, they cover hot button issues that don't even mention candidates. so think gun control or education. as part of this, the company also announced a searchable database where users can see how much the ads cost and also what kinds of people advertisers are targeting. this is all about more...

To be putting out all these ads, both candidate ads and issue ads. >> and that's critical. the issue ads piece of it. that's things like black lives matter protests that were manipulated or used differently to try and incite, we think, political immigration ads. >> energy ads, you name it. under the standards right now, at issue ads of national legislative importance have to be disclosed by your station. they have to be disclosed by radio. and so we're simply applying the same rules. they are now voluntarily going to do that. they are going to have an archive up in june so everyone can see wha...

To try and incite, we think, political immigration ads. >> energy ads, you name it. under the standards right now, at issue ads of national legislative importance have to be disclosed by your station. they have to be disclosed by radio. and so we're simply applying the same rules. they are now voluntarily going to do that. they are going to have an archive up in june so everyone can see what the ads are. they are also going to require disclaimers. we want twitter and google and the other platforms to do this as well as we work to pass our bill because otherwise you're going to have a patch wor...