
Twitter has today announced that it will stop accepting advertising from all accounts owned by Kremlin-backed Russian news outlets Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, effective immediately.
The online platform said it had based its decision to “off-board advertising” for the two titles on the US intelligence community’s conclusion that they had “attempted to interfere with the [2016 US presidential] election on behalf of the Russian government”.
Said Twitter: “We did not come to this decision lightly, and are taking this step now as part of our ongoing commitment to help protect the integrity of the user experience on Twitter.
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