Last week Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced a policy to no longer run political ads on his social network, and according to a survey on Blind, the anonymous messaging app for tech employees, this shift has very strong support among his staff. Not only do 85% support it, a solid majority of 56% say the policy will have a positive effect on the 2020 election. Perhaps even more notably, 82% of Twitter employees who took the survey say Facebook should adopt a similar policy.

This is in striking contrast to a Blind survey conducted last month directed at Facebook employees, and its policy of allowing deceptive or inaccurate political ads: 51% of Facebook staff who took the survey said this policy might change the 2020 election, and only 54% supported having the policy in the first place. This strongly suggests less internal confidence within the Facebook ranks.

However, there's another surprise from this new survey, when Facebook employees were asked about Twitter's new policy: