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Brands suspend advertising on X after ads appear alongside Nazi content

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Musk has continued to place his personal proclivity for right-wing content and influencers over brand – and really overall user – safety. For example, last month, Musk personally intervened to restore a right-wing influencer’s account after they were suspended for posting photos of child exploitation.

    Tells you everything you need to know.

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  • nLuLukna@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    1. Buy unprofitable application
    2. Make a series of incredibly shit business decisions
    3. It’s now less profitable than before.
    4. ???
    5. ???
    6. Profit
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    • vanontom@geddit.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hold on, maybe I’ve figured it out. Endless magical profits, here I come!

      1. Be ultra-wealthy. (Bonus for not paying taxes.)
      2. Do anything. (Bonus for pretending it’s profitable.)
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    • Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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”

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  • nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    wow everything is a nazi now including hitler

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They never give Adolf Hitler credit- he killed Adolf Hitler.

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      • Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “Everything that I don’t like (that is or openly supports a nazi) is now a nazi!”

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    • Wirrvogel@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZtdmyKlI (English subtitles available, 2 funny minutes worth your time)

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  • J12@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • AdmiralShat@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I exclusively am subscribed to porn accounts, so I find it super weird when right ring idiots show up in my feed.

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    • portifornia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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!?

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      • RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You just accidentally named 3 mastodon instances.

        Slap a .moe or .xyz or a .social and your federatin baby

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      • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Xittter with the x using ‘sh’ pronunciation

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  • ebenixo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We don’t fucking want them on lemmy either

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    • fogetaboutit@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The glory of instances. If enough people dont like it, they can just block it!

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      • DrownedRats@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    shouldn’t have fired the brand safety team

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    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • JoBo@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • niisyth@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Are there legal implications for this? Is X guilty of misrepresentation or any such related case.

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      • JoBo@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • saltedFish@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This comes as no surprise really. I noticed a marked increase in right wing insanity after Elon took over.

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  • 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • veniasilente@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just keep calling it Twitter and campaign for other people to do the same.

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  • aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bwahahaha between x and trump I’m entertained.

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  • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And no one but Musk is the least bit surprised by the catastrophic failure of Twitter.

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  • RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • TurtleJoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He’s already installed the shadow CEO.

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      • Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Techmaster@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Get people to start missing it like Twinkies.

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  • BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wrestle with pigs, get covered in shit, or something like that.

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  • seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m surprised it took this long.

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  • BroederJakob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just love how we all refer to it as “the company formerly known as Twitter”

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  • 99nights@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Geez, that’s pretty fucking intense.

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