Warner, Klobuchar Urge Alphabet, Twitter to Support Honest Ads Act
After securing a Facebook endorsement for the Honest Ads Act, Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., asked for support from Alphabet and Twitter Monday (see 1804060056). They asked the companies to follow Facebook’s example and voluntarily implement measures…
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included in the legislation, which would regulate online political ads using the same rules as those for TV, radio and satellite TV. “As we saw in the 2016 presidential election, foreign actors can seek to influence the electorate without voters’ knowledge through online political advertising,” the lawmakers wrote. Twitter and Alphabet didn’t comment.