The Case for Removing All Politicians From Twitter

Political omnipresence has gone too far

Robert Howell
OneZero

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MMany celebrated when Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter would stop accepting political advertising. Perhaps it was a shot at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s self-serving defense of political ads, and it probably wasn’t a major sacrifice for Twitter. And even though I believe it’s a step in the right direction…

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Robert Howell
OneZero

Robert Howell is professor of philosophy at SMU. Author of Consciousness and the Limits of Objectivity (Oxford, 2013).