French authorities ban Twitter Blue for political candidates ahead of elections – Euronews

French authorities ban Twitter Blue for political candidates ahead of elections French authorities ban Twitter Blue for political candidates ahead of elections – Copyright Gregory Bull/Copyright 2022 The AP. All rights reserved By Oceane Duboust  •  Updated: 20/07/2023 – 15:03 French political candidates will not be allowed to have a blue tick on Twitter six months ahead of an election, campaign financing authorities said. France’s commission for campaign accounts and political financing, the CNCCFP, said in a thread on the social media site that the blue check would be considered a form of “sponsored advertising”.French law bans candidates from any form of commercial advertising in the press or any means of audiovisual communication in the six months preceding an election.“Twitter Blue makes it possible, in particular, to increase the visibility of an account and the reach of the messages broadcast,” the French campaign accounts authority added in a tweet.“This paid subscription, by its operation and its purpose, is a new method of advertising sponsorship”.A blue check on Twitter previously certified the authenticity of an account on the social media platform and had been widely used by political figures, institutions, media and celebrities.But since billionaire Elon Musk acquired Twitter last year, he deployed a new system in which
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