Another advertiser claimed it hasn't runs a paid ad campaign on X in years, regardless of X serving its ads to users.
  • Archmage Azor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1952·
    1 年前

    All these news about X going to shit feels like that gif of the truck driving towards the pole but constantly cutting before the impact

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
    981·
    1 年前

    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.

  • nLuLukna @sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    91·
    1 年前
    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
    • vanontom@geddit.socialEnglish
      14·
      1 年前

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

      Step 4. Be ultra-wealthy. (Bonus for not paying taxes.) Step 5. Do anything. (Bonus for pretending it’s profitable.)

    • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 年前

      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”

      • droans@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 年前

        Nah, it’s selling to Yahoo, then getting your parent company acquired by Verizon, then having Verizon spin your parent company off again.

  • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    75·
    1 年前

    I got curious about just how bad said Nazi content is, and managed to find an article with some screenshots: https://nypost.com/2023/08/17/x-suspends-pro-hitler-account-after-brands-paused-ads/

    Spoiler: very Nazi.

    So it’s not just Nazi-compatible ideas. It’s straight out Nazi symbolism.

    I really don’t get these people - even if you believe the Nazis were right, you know they are the most hated historical faction in the world. Wouldn’t it be better to advocate their ideas without explicitly associating yourself with them, just to avoid the (completely justified) knee-jerk reaction?

      • DrownedRats@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 年前

        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.

        • Kinyutaka@lemmy.worldEnglish
          81·
          1 年前

          Problem is that if we don’t kick out the Nazis, sooner or later this will become a Nazi bar.

        • fogetaboutit@programming.devEnglish
          3·
          1 年前

          Echo chamber will live no matter what. If they cant do it on reddit, they will do it on someplace else. Blocking them is the best we can do, as long as people that I dislike are still alive and have access to internet.

      • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        232·
        1 年前

        User calls for far-right content to be removed whilst using far-right terminology. The cognitive dissonance must be excruciating.

        • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.eeEnglish
          141·
          1 年前

          It’s bizarre to see isn’t it? Trying to insult people by accusing them or being… you.

          But they can’t see it. The entire depth of thought seems to be “Nazis are bad and I am good therefore I can’t be a Nazi”.

          It doesn’t matter that their list of undesirables is virtually identical, or that their violent solutions are virtually identical, or that the guy standing next to them has a SS tattoo.

          They don’t want to be a Nazi, so as far as they’re concerned, they’re not.

        • Shihali@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          172·
          1 年前

          I’ve never seen the word before, but calling Ukraine’s president – who is Jewish – a “nazi” was a staple of Putin’s propaganda to support his war of imperial re-conquest.

  • J12@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    1 年前

    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.devEnglish
      331·
      1 年前

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

      • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        1 年前

        That’s what I use Twitter for too but what intrudes my feed is mostly memes and cat videos. While it may be true my experience however isn’t that they’re pushing right wing content to everyone because I’m not seeing it.

    • portifornia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      122·
      1 年前

      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!?

  • Pablo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    1 年前

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

  • DarkWasp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    1 年前

    Can’t see any company, let alone something family friendly being remotely okay with any of this. Who wants to pay to be right next to Nazi content besides maybe MyPillow?

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zoneEnglish
    39·
    1 年前

    It’s amazing there are still so many 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.

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
      16·
      1 年前

      Set a filter for capital ’ X ’ (with a space on either side) as well as ’ X.’ (left space + period)

      • Malfeasant@lemm.eeEnglish
        20·
        1 年前

        Eh, it’s not that simple… There’s a windowing system on Linux, and an old punk band from LA, and a whole generation…

        • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
          91·
          1 年前

          Running away from the X windowing system might not be that bad though 😉

          • danielton@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 年前

            But for some stupid reason, most Linux users have nvidia, which doesn’t play well with Wayland (or X, for that matter…)

          • Isthisreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 年前

            Unix Blasphemy!!

            I do love X though (not the Twitter rebrand - Motif for life!!). A simple X program is/was so portable, but I guess not many people care anymore.

        • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          1 年前

          It’s not a perfect solution, no, but it’s a solution.

          Personally, none of those would hold me back, but to each their own.

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      1 年前

      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.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      7·
      1 年前

      I don’t think hate speech necessarily falls into the domain of free speech. It falls into the domain of people don’t like it so we don’t want to be associated with it.

      Anyway yet again, free speech only exists between you and the government. If corporations want to disassociate themselves with the business or individual because they allow people to say things they don’t like, that’s not violation of free speech.

    • foo@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      1 年前

      If I have the right of free speech then surely I have the right to decide when, where, and with who my speech is delivered at