Kaiser: Twitter political ads ban no sure fix to voter manipulation


Kaiser said voters in the United States and Britain were today as likely to be affected by data breaches as they were in 2016 during Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Britain's EU referendum campaign. — Bloomberg

LISBON: Brittany Kaiser, a former Cambridge Analytica director turned witness in a cross-Atlantic data privacy scandal, on Nov 5 praised Twitter's move to ban political advertising from its platform but said it was not a "permanent fix".

She said voters in the United States and Britain were today as likely to be affected by data breaches as they were in 2016 during Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Britain's EU referendum campaign.

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