The Washington Post Will Pause Its Advertising on X

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• nucleative@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As more of these are announced, fewer casual twitter lurkers will visit the site. After a while of this, it will become socially unacceptable for more brands to remain, and they’ll fall too. Prolific twitter posters will find they no longer have any reach, so they’ll leave too.

  Seems like the toilet is mid flush.

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  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    By what logic does advertisers leaving incentivize users to stop going there aswell?

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    • GeneralVincent@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because it’s not all advertisers leaving, there will still be ads just from less scrupulous companies. And because Elon is pushing the site to be more right wing, probably more right wing advertisers. Some users won’t like that

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• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are we going to read about each and every single company that stops advertising on Twatter?

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  • mriormro@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would like to, yes.

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  • cedarmesa@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, if he doesn’t want to read corporate drama and musk spam he should just go to a technology sub instead

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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But it’s so much about Technology!!¡!!!

    Ffs this sub should get real moderators who actually care to remove things according to their own rules

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    • slayback@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      OP is a bot…

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• Eh_I@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Way to take a stand almost kind of.

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  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They are temporarily against racism. At least until people stop paying attention

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• qooqie@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I always considered WaPo fairly left leaning so I’m kind of surprised they were advertising at all on X as of late

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  • Pips@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s traditionally conservative but more frequently has been endorseing candidates left of center since the right wing is batshit. They overall supported Obama, but frankly Obama is about as centrist as they come. There was a very long stint in the 00s and 10s where they would publish more conservative, hawkish pieces over any news to the contrary.

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• Gork@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Would that change, though, if the billionaires themselves intervene? Elon can phone his buddy (?) Bezos to reverse the decision.

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  • Sneptaur@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I doubt they’re pals. Their relationship seems to be very adversarial. Everyone hates musk and he sees them as a threat. Bezos is a neoliberal. Musk is a fascist. There is a difference, at least as far as optics are concerned.

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• Mrkawfee@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Time for Elon Musk to join the IDF.

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• DreBeast@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’ll send a message. Better watch out Elon or Jeff will pull the plug

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I never thought I’d say this, but I’m closing the bureau… for an hour.

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