Twitter bans ads from Russian media outlets RT and Sputnik

Published October 26, 2017 3:21pm ET



Twitter will no longer allow ads from the Russian news media outlets RT and Sputnik to run on its platform.

In a statement on its company blog, Twitter said it made the decision “based on the retrospective work we’ve been doing around the 2016 U.S. election and the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that both RT and Sputnik attempted to interfere with the election on behalf of the Russian government.”

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