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Wed Oct 30 22:03:12 +0000 2019

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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Twitter’s CFO says the company made less than $3 million from political ads in the 2018 cycle. https://t.co/LaTPIAlJzt — PolitiTweet.org

Ned Segal @nedsegal

Since we are getting questions: This decision was based on principle, not money. As context, we’ve disclosed that p… https://t.co/1tRoI4eElj

Posted Oct. 30, 2019 Hibernated

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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Zuckerberg says political ads will account for less than 0.5 percent of Facebook's revenue next year. "The FTC fine was more than 10x bigger than this." Unclear if he's aware of the Twitter announcement -- he hasn't addressed it directly (yet). — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 30, 2019 Hibernated

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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

So, just doing some back of the napkin math — we don’t know what Facebook’s internal revenue projections look like, but we do have last year’s figures. Assuming FB revenue is similar or higher next year, 0.5 percent is at least $279 million. Not nothing https://t.co/Nvn7srx4pM https://t.co/KyeubDWP01 — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung @b_fung

Zuckerberg says political ads will account for less than 0.5 percent of Facebook's revenue next year. "The FTC fine… https://t.co/oBmEEzSHt7

Posted Oct. 30, 2019 Hibernated

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