At least two brands have said they will suspend advertising on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, after their ads and those of other companies were run on an account promoting fascism. The issue came less than a week after X CEO Linda Yaccarino publicly affirmed the company’s commitment to brand safety for advertisers.
Here comes the waterworks from the alt-right fanboys
When the platform you are on can’t seem to figure out its own brand, maybe it is time to move on?
The only surefire way for these company to control what their content appears next to is to rely on themselves. I expect them to start experimenting with the Fediverse, especially Mastodon, soon.
… Shitposting on Lemmy is still superior for organic marketing though, especially for movies.
They actually hire companies like Double Verify, an Israeli company, who man in the middle the ad and figure out where it is showing up.
Disney doesn’t want their ads on porn sites, and pays a lot to keep it that way.
I’m defedding from brands.social on day 1
The BBC are trying a 6 month experiment of moving their Twitter style social media over to their own Mastodon server.
Someone needs to edit their new “logo” and add four lines at the extremities, just to see what it would look like.
Oh damn… This will catch on quick. Lol
Edit: Fashtag freeze peach
Hey don’t deface the X.org logo like that!
It doesn’t look as good as you would think. The spacing between the lines in the “X” logo aren’t evenly distributed, which means the added lines aren’t spaced properly either.
Take my word on it, the end result looks more like a dancing cactus than a specific symbol used during World War II.
That would not be the result I expected but a sort of “Pampa X” sounds way cooler anyway hehe.
I couldn’t help but catch the line that
Ads for brands including Adobe, Gilead Sciences, the University of Maryland’s football team, New York University Langone Hospital and NCTA-The Internet and Television Association were run alongside tweets from the account that had garnered hundreds of thousands of views, CNN observed.
And there’s literally an entire black market of veterinarians recommending a very specific antiviral to cat parents unfortunate enough to have their cats be among the 1% of the global cat population whose mutation of feline enteric coronavirus (FECV) to feline coronavirus (FCoV) brings about Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), and that specific life-saving treatment is behind Gilead Sciences’ refusal to release their patent to veterinary use…
This dumpster fire keeps getting hotter and hotter.
Just like the climate and oceans.
I wonder if it’s all linked in the multiverse?
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You mean they appeared on Twitter?
X, you mean. It’s the core of a swastika.
NCTA and Gilead are an evil organization and an evil corporation. They should feel right at home with the Nazis.
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I’m not saying that at all. I’m just saying like follows like. They should enjoy being associated with fascists.
But being honest is bad for business. Need to keep the beard on.
Two groups of “people” who deserve each other soulless brands and elon.
You mean just like placed next to regular Twitter content?
Bro, you better check your privilege and stop deadnaming X
I hope you have that same energy for actual human beings and aren’t just deepthroating corporation boot.
It’s a joke. And it’s funny.
The only socially acceptable deadnaming
Ignore this, I meant to reply to the other user.
Hahaha, the delete button does exist.
Does that make this delete button erasure?
It’s a Nazi bar now.
Apple still advertises on Twitter. We need a website that tracks all of these companies that still advertise on that pro-nazi platform.
It would be funny if they were all the same ones that supported Adolf
Companies don’t have ethics, they have profits
You shouldn’t read too much into it
I don’t see why I shouldn’t look into it. Are there any good reasons not to?
You can look into it but it doesn’t mean company supports X
Look at pride month or the bud light thing
Disagree on not reading into it. You should be appalled by the fact that profit comes at the sacrifice of ethics.
Yes but not enough people will boycott everything that supports things they are against. A lot of people will have a brand that they say “yeah but I really like them”
And all corporations are evil, it’s not really a surprise
Companies don’t have ethics.
Companies aren’t real, they’re just people organized into a collective, and people do have ethics.
And contrary to Internet wisdom, corporations do not have a legal obligation to pursue profit at all cost.
One might ask what the point of spreading that particular lie was.
The company boards would gladly stuff you into Gaza if there was a profit to be made.
Sure. But I find it strange that people act like those evil fucks are a faceless building and not individuals you can point to and say, “Hey, no, it’s that guy, he enslaved those kids.”
What are we going to do? What recourse did the girls raped by Epstein have?
Found one it’s called google, seem like all companies in the world advertise on twitter except for these two in the title that pulled out
How about a disclaimer for companies like people have when they play online. “Statements and opinions made by users do not reflect those of X” ESRB for ad companies to get it.
Something like that is already in law as a kind of default. Companies are not responsible for the content posted by their users on the basis that no entity could possibly police that much content, with two exceptions:
-Content must be removed if it is illegal and has been specifically pointed out by appropriate authorities for removal.
-If an organisation willingly polices their own content in any way then they also take on responsibility for it.Why?
These companies don’t have to do business with twitter.
Now because their logo was next to some Nazi shit when they were promised it wouldn’t be, they are pulling their dollars because of broken promises.
Because it’s annoying when a lot of good shit goes to dog shit when ad companies get involved with the creative side of things. Just have it in the contract up front if it’s not already and they can agree to be on the platform all in or all out.
Who said the ad companies are making it go to dog shit by not wanting to be seen next to fascist content?
if there is one thing you can count on from Musk, its broken promises
How about no.
One of the brands is Gilead Science. I know the name is based on the Balm of Gilead, but after The Handmaid’s Tale the name has a nasty resonance…
Glad they suspended their advertising. A good decision.
Make Twitter Ban Again
