Title: Opposing Extremes on Political Ad Policies

Course: Public Relations

Software: Microsoft Word

Concentration(s): Communications

Description: For our final paper, we were instructed to write a thesis-driven 6-8 page paper tackling a current issue in public relations. My paper looks at how Facebook and Twitter choose to handle political advertising on their platforms.

Thesis: Dorsey decided to ban political ads from Twitter with the belief that political message reach should be earned, while Facebook continued to hold firm its political ads policy keeping free speech a priority, but complications come with both platforms’ decisions.