- Buy unprofitable application
- Make a series of incredibly shit business decisions
- It’s now less profitable than before.
- ???
- ???
- Profit
Brands suspend advertising on X after ads appear alongside Nazi content
Submitted 10 months ago by HLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-brands-suspend-ads-showing-beside-nazi-content
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nLuLukna@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
vanontom@geddit.social 10 months ago
Hold on, maybe I’ve figured it out. Endless magical profits, here I come!
- Be ultra-wealthy. (Bonus for not paying taxes.)
- Do anything. (Bonus for pretending it’s profitable.)
Snapz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve one the steps is, “use the letter X SOMEHOW, so people won’t laugh at you and will realize you are so cool finally”
nutsack@lemmy.world 10 months ago
wow everything is a nazi now including hitler
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They never give Adolf Hitler credit- he killed Adolf Hitler.
Snapz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“Everything that I don’t like (that is or openly supports a nazi) is now a nazi!”
Wirrvogel@feddit.de 10 months ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZtdmyKlI (English subtitles available, 2 funny minutes worth your time)
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J12@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lunatics always show up in my For You feed on Twitter. I always tag the company with a screenshot of the offending content with the advertisement. Lately it’s been weird advertisements. Shitty gambling apps, religious and personal accounts promoting their personal brand. So they likely don’t care.
Also I’ll never call Twitter anything but Twitter.
AdmiralShat@programming.dev 10 months ago
I exclusively am subscribed to porn accounts, so I find it super weird when right ring idiots show up in my feed.
portifornia@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Also I’ll never call Twitter anything but Twitter.
I don’t know, I think there’s room for appropriate change here;
- Twater
- Twit’er
- Twixlers
I admit, my suggestions could use more help, but surely we must admit they’ve devolved from Twitter!?
RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You just accidentally named 3 mastodon instances.
Slap a .moe or .xyz or a .social and your federatin baby
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 10 months ago
Xittter with the x using ‘sh’ pronunciation
ebenixo@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
We don’t fucking want them on lemmy either
fogetaboutit@programming.dev 10 months ago
The glory of instances. If enough people dont like it, they can just block it!
DrownedRats@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it’s easy to block out communities with racist, homophobic, and xenophobic views. On the other hand, it allows communities like that to become echo chambers and freely further their abhorrent ideals completely unchecked.
I don’t think the ban hammer is the most effective method of shutting down nazi shit, but it’s a hell of a lot better than shutting it out of sight and trying to forget about it.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 months ago
It’s amazing there are still brands and social media strategists who seem in denial about what’s happening even as they watch their customer engagement on Twitter/X evaporate before their very eyes.
match@pawb.social 10 months ago
shouldn’t have fired the brand safety team
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I mean, in all reality, this could be why he fired the brand safety team. He’s had aspirations of burying himself with X for decades.
JoBo@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Furthermore, one organization that had ads placed on this content claimed that it wasn’t an X advertiser at all. In a statement provided to CNN, University of Maryland’s associate athletic director told the outlet that Maryland Football hasn’t run a paid ad campaign on X since 2021.
Interesting snippet. It would be very interesting to know how and why that happened.
niisyth@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
If a small portion of ads keep repeating, it’d show the shallow pool of advertisers left on the website.
That or there’s no one at the helm for advertising.
Either way, looks incredibly shabby.
Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Are there legal implications for this? Is X guilty of misrepresentation or any such related case.
JoBo@feddit.uk 10 months ago
No idea. It is a kind of defamation but I think you’d struggle to prove it. You could, however, get shedloads of free publicity by banging on about it for clickbait.
saltedFish@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
This comes as no surprise really. I noticed a marked increase in right wing insanity after Elon took over.
30mag@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I wish they hadn’t change the name. It was much easier to keep bullshit I do not care about out of my newsfeed when it was called twitter.
veniasilente@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Just keep calling it Twitter and campaign for other people to do the same.
aceshigh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bwahahaha between x and trump I’m entertained.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And no one but Musk is the least bit surprised by the catastrophic failure of Twitter.
RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Does anybody else have a feeling like it’s a New Coke situation?
Drive it into the ground, then a year later come back with a shadow CEO and say “We’re back and better than ever”…profit.
TurtleJoe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
He’s already installed the shadow CEO.
Snapz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They seriously need to put her face as the last image on the Wikipedia page for sycophant. The pattern is her lagging response with hollow corporate, “girlboss” speak to frame a random 2am gut response from elon as a considered business decision. Her statements to justify his BS are BURSTING with double speak and circular nothingness.
Techmaster@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Get people to start missing it like Twinkies.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wrestle with pigs, get covered in shit, or something like that.
seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
I’m surprised it took this long.
BroederJakob@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just love how we all refer to it as “the company formerly known as Twitter”
99nights@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Geez, that’s pretty fucking intense.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Tells you everything you need to know.