Over the last 24 hours, we’ve received significant feedback (from critical to supportive) about how we enforced our Hacked Materials Policy yesterday. After reflecting on this feedback, we have decided to make changes to the policy and how we enforce it. Why the changes? We want to address the concerns that there could be many unintended consequences to journalists, whistleblowers and others in ways that are contrary to Twitter’s purpose of serving the public conversation.

Today, we’re sharing the full details of Twitter's new political ads policy. I encourage you to read through it for the full detail, but I wanted to share some of the thinking that went into its creation. This new policy goes into effect on 11/22.

business.twitter.com/en/help/ads-po… Digital advertising is incredibly effective. We must address the risk that brings when it comes to driving political outcomes. With that in mind, three beliefs guided the development of a policy that we think is the right one for Twitter and how our service is used:

Yesterday we took action against a number of accounts that we believe have violated our policies by creating new accounts after being suspended. This is a part of the work we're doing every day to improve Twitter. We proactively identify suspicious account behaviors that indicate automated activity or violations of our policies, including having multiple accounts. We take action on these accounts in various ways.