Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Tuesday that Twitter would pay $100,000 to Washington's Public Disclosure Transparency Account after violating state campaign finance disclosure laws.
From 2012 to 2019, Twitter received nearly $200,000 for campaign ads but failed to follow Washington disclosure laws by unlawfully failing to maintain public records about the political ads that ran on the platform has resulted in a $100,000 fine.
Jack Dorsey, Twitter's chief executive, said in October 2019 that the social media platform would ban all political ads due to misleading messaging by some candidates.
"We've made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons…," Dorsey tweeted last year.
The judgment, filed Tuesday in King County Superior Court, notes that at least 38 Washington candidates and political committees paid $194,550 for political advertising on the platform between 2012-2019.
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