{"id":41402,"date":"2019-10-31T20:22:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T20:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41402"},"modified":"2019-10-31T20:22:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T20:22:06","slug":"should-political-ads-be-banned-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41402","title":{"rendered":"Should political ads be banned on social media?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"83.258964143426\">\n<p><a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/social-media.html#\">Social media<\/a> has transformed the way we debate politics.<\/p>\n<p><span>Donald Trump, t<\/span>he president of the <a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">United States<\/a>, often uses Twitter to announce new policies, attack an opponent or even re-tweet what many consider to be misleading information.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook, <a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/twitter.html\">Twitter<\/a> and YouTube have been criticised for allowing political hate speech and misinformation to flourish on their platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with just a year to go before the US presidential election, Twitter is banning all political advertising around the world from next month.<\/p>\n<p>While some Democratic candidates welcomed the move, Trump&#8217;s campaign manager called it &#8220;a very dumb decision&#8221; intended to silence conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>So, will the ban encourage or stifle debate? And how will it be enforced?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Nastasya Tay<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Philip Brey &#8211; professor of philosophy at the University of Twente and analyst on the philosophy of technology<\/p>\n<p>Joe Watkins &#8211; Republican political strategist<\/p>\n<p>Yair Cohen &#8211; analyst on internet law and social media<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media has transformed the way we debate politics. Donald Trump, the president of the United States, often uses Twitter to announce new policies, attack an opponent or even re-tweet what many consider to be misleading information. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have been criticised for allowing political hate speech and misinformation to flourish on their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}