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Irony: Elizabeth Warren Slams Twitter’s Political Ad Ban Because It Covers Climate Change

Emily Zanotti
Irony: Elizabeth Warren Slams Twitter’s Political Ad Ban Because It Covers Climate Change
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has been on a crusade to force social media platforms like Facebook to crack down on political ads, claiming that lenient ad policies, like the one Facebook employs, allow political campaigns to lie about key issues, creating confusion.

But her concerns seem to end at social media political ads she disagrees with. When Twitter announced a crackdown on political ads — like the one Warren is pushing for Facebook — Warren lashed out at the social media platform for censoring important content because Twitter’s definition of “politics” includes contentious issues like “climate change.”

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