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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>US social media company Twitter said on Wednesday it was softening the platform\u2019s policy on political advertising. \u201cToday, we\u2019re relaxing our ads policy for cause-based ads in the US.<\/p>\n

We also plan to expand the political advertising we permit in the coming weeks,\u201d the company tweeted. Twitter also plans to align its advertising policy with the one followed by US television and other mass media services, the message read. At the moment, Twitter prohibits the promotion of political content on the platform.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Lesotho. US social media company Twitter said on Wednesday it was softening the platform\u2019s policy on political advertising. \u201cToday, we\u2019re relaxing our ads policy for cause-based ads in the US. We also plan to expand the political advertising we permit in the coming weeks,\u201d the company tweeted. Twitter also plans to align its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":23756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[233,246,245,503],"class_list":["post-23757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-lesotho","tag-political"],"yoast_head":"\nTwitter Eases Policy on Political Advertising in US - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"US social media company Twitter said on Wednesday it was softening the platform\u2019s policy on political advertising. \u201cToda ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/twitter-eases-policy-on-political-advertising-in-us\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Twitter Eases Policy on Political Advertising in US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"US social media company Twitter said on Wednesday it was softening the platform\u2019s policy on political advertising. \u201cToda ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/twitter-eases-policy-on-political-advertising-in-us\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-08T08:39:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-08T09:46:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1673154609.18.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"546\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/twitter-eases-policy-on-political-advertising-in-us#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/twitter-eases-policy-on-political-advertising-in-us\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Twitter Eases Policy on Political Advertising in US\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-08T08:39:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-08T09:46:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/twitter-eases-policy-on-political-advertising-in-us\"},\"wordCount\":104,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/twitter-eases-policy-on-political-advertising-in-us#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1673154609.18.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Lesotho\",\"Lesotho\",\"political\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/twitter-eases-policy-on-political-advertising-in-us#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/twitter-eases-policy-on-political-advertising-in-us\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/twitter-eases-policy-on-political-advertising-in-us\",\"name\":\"Twitter Eases Policy on Political Advertising in US - 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