[bsparker]

Twitter is an American company, and is publicly traded as such. They have a responsibility to appease shareholders. This isn't really about politics at all, or patriotism, it's about money.

[creaghpatr]

Not all of their shareholders are American, in fact much of the equity is largely concentrated amongst a few relatively well known names

https://www.recode.net/2016/8/11/12417064/twitter-stock-owne...

[atomi]

They could be more transparent about ads by informing people who is sponsoring them. But that might upset their other advertisers.