Welcome to the tech meme right home for Thursday, October 31st, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Twitter says it will ban all political advertising.

Cognizant says it is getting out of the

content moderation business. Facebook earnings are good, Apple earnings are good,

and evolving, and can the Chinese monitor SMS messages at the provider level at scale?

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Well, I'm super glad I finally mentioned that whole letting politicians lie in

Facebook ads thing yesterday because now I get to look like I'm clarifoyant,

narrator's voice over, he's not.

Last night in a thread on Twitter, just like I suggested Facebook should consider doing?

Jack Dorsey said,

Twitter will stop accepting all political and social issue

ads on its platform globally globally starting November 22nd.

And Jack made some points that it's not hard to read as at least

oblique shots at Facebook and its policies around political ads. I'm going to

jump around from Jack's thread, but I am quoting here. We believe political

message reach should be earned not bought. Why? A few reasons. A political

message earns reach when people decide to follow an account or retweet. Paying for reach removes that decision, forcing highly optimized

and targeted political messages on people. We believe this decision should not be compromised

by money. While internet advertising is

incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power

brings significant risks to politics, where it can be used to influence votes to

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