Twitter’s Ban on Paid Political Speech Follows Anti-Speech Headwinds from Washington

“My Democratic colleagues have threatened to impose huge regulatory liability on platforms that run political ads -- and now a prominent platform has preemptively decided that allowing certain kinds of political speech is more trouble than it’s worth. It does not serve our democracy for Democratic leaders to chill or suppress the free exchange of ideas through federal policy. And it does not serve our democracy for private-sector leaders to take away a crucial tool that helps less-prominent speakers make their case to the American people.”