NICK GILLESPIE: ‘We Can Fact Check Your Ass,’ but Not When It Comes to Political Ads. “Twitter has announced that it will forego running all paid ads for individual candidates and issues…This sort of thinking represents a fundamental betrayal of the ideals that helped build the internet into an unparalleled, open system of knowledge and information. [Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey] is effectively saying that we—you, me, and the typical Twitter user—can’t manage to sift wheat from chaff online.”