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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nonsense. All they did was hit refresh. Anyone can do it.

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  • squiblet@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They followed specific people and topics (neonazis and major brands) to bring it about. Seems fine to me:

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  • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That isn’t accurate - you can look up the details before getting all fussy. Of all the twitter users they were the only user that saw one pairing and one of the other pairings may have been seen by one actual user, but also might’ve just been MM seeing it twice.

    It wasn’t an organic thing and it’ll be interesting to see if it goes to court.

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    • vivadanang@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It wasn’t an organic thing and it’ll be interesting to see if it goes to court.

      it was completely organic. no outside-twitter resources were used to achieve the result - they literally used twitter’s tools and proved it could happen readily. That’s all advertisers need to see to bug the fuck out.

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      • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We have different definitions of organic. I think the fact that only they saw some of the pairings shows it’s something no legitimate user did.

        You don’t have to modify a lawn mower to flip it upside down and throw cats in it my friend.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even Twitter isn’t claiming that Media Matters somehow broke their algorithm (unsurprisingly, since that makes Twitter look terrible):

      The lawsuit filed Monday accuses Media Matters of publishing a report that distorted the likelihood of ads appearing beside extremist content on X, a move the social media company says led major and influential advertisers to suspend their campaigns en masse. The company alleges that the group’s testing methodology was not representative of how real users experience the site and calls for a judge to force Media Matters to take down the analysis.

      The case appears to be a “bogus” attempt to chill criticism in a way that “flatly contradicts basic First Amendment principles,” Ted Boutrous, a First Amendment attorney with years of experience dealing with the tech industry, told CNN. Boutrous added that the case could backfire for X in the discovery phase, as Media Matters could demand internal information that, if presented at trial, could prove embarrassing or highly damaging to the social media company.

      The lawsuit also contains “fatal flaws” by conceding that ads did, in fact, appear beside extremist content, regardless of how Media Matters achieved that result, according to Steve Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas and a CNN contributor.

      “The complaint admits that the thing Media Matters was making a big deal about actually happened,” Vladeck said. “Most companies wouldn’t want their ads running next to neo-Nazi content even once, and wouldn’t care about the exact percentage of users who were encountering such side-by-side placement.”

      Contrary to the complaint, Media Matters “never claimed that what it found was typical of other users’ experience,” Vladeck added.

      www.cnn.com/2023/11/21/tech/…/index.html

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      • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They contrived a situation that literally happened to nobody else. You’ll have to excuse my liberty with the word broken, but this is a non-issue.

        If it wasn’t musk none of us would give a fuck. If a right wing propaganda mill did the same thing everyone would happily admit it’s misleading. The fact that it gets any traction at all is so fucking depressing.

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    • squiblet@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Musk and Yaccarino claim hat it wasn’t displayed that way to any regular users. We have no way of verifying that.

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      • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can read my other comments. They filed a lawsuit referring to their analytics. If it’s a lie it will come out in discovery.

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• Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How’s Elon’s boot taste?

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  • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t like being lied to, even if the lie fits my worldview.

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