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shouldn’t have fired the brand safety team
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.
Bwahahaha between x and trump I’m entertained.
He wanted free speech with no censorship. I get it, but he also wants to make a profit. So this is was happens, I hope him and the almighty shareholders are ok with it.
He didn’t want any of that.
Well - 79% of ‘the almighty shareholders’ is Elon Musk, and I somehow get the impression that as long as he is convinced that he’s doing exactly the right things nothing will change. The next biggest stakeholders are Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal (5.7%), Oracle founder Larry Ellison (3.0%), Jack Dorsey (3.0%), Sequoia Capital (2.4%), and Vy Capital (2.1%) - and they’ve all been publicly silent on the topic of twitter self destruction - I think they’ve transitioned into train-wreck mode where they are in such disbelief about what they are witnessing that they aren’t able to articulate opinions about it.
Dorsey agrees with Musk on this stuff. He has said before that he didn’t want to ban Trump after J6 and that he was against banning Nazi accounts, but did it because it was a public company, and they kinda had to.
Now he and his buddies are trying to roll out their own social media protocol, bluesky, which is built specifically to not allow Nazis to be banned.
Maybe they are all shorting it big in their alt accounts because they know that the SEC fines will be trivial next to the money they will make. Also, that not a single one of them would see the inside of a court room.
Pretty sure you can’t short a private company. It has to be traded on a public exchange to short sell it.
I didn’t realize that they delisted it after he bought it.
It seems very charitable to say he sincerly cares about free speech given his hindering and sliencing of others.
I am still entirely convinced that the only reason he bought Twitter in the first place is because of this: https://www.businessinsider.com/student-who-tracks-elon-musk-jet-launching-own-website-2023-2
Personally I think he was attempting a pump and dump and got caught out by the market downturn that hit just after he brought in.
He never cared about free speech, he only cared about HIS free speech
He wants free speech only if he agrees with it.
If you’re advertising on Twitter in 2023 and your target audience isn’t Nazis, what are you doing? 😅
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?
Wouldn’t it be better to advocate their ideas without explicitly associating yourself with them, just to avoid the (completely justified) knee-jerk reaction?
I don’t think raising swastika flags counts as “without explicitly associating yourself with them”.
They want the negative reaction. They thrive on being hated. Similar with some of the worst Internet trolls. The hatred validates them.
You’re suggesting that Nazi’s use their famous critical thinking skills to understand that 99% of the world hates them and their ideology?
Being evil is one thing, but there is no excuse for being stupid.
Has there ever been any intelligent right-wing movements? Pretty much every white supremacist has the IQ of a fairly cool room. They claim to be the superior race, while providing absolutely no evidence of this.
Yes, lots of them. You can’t think of them because they got what they wanted without you noticing it.
Your link just shows the blinking X and “someone ‘paused’ (e.g stopped) doing business” with “x”.
Or am I missing something?
Ignore the video, scroll down through the article.
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.
Yea see… they (corporations) prefer their money is made next to white supremacy less loudly. That’s all.
That’s why they just suspended ads, not terminated ad buying.
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
Exactly! That’s exactly how it feels!
They really are an infinite content machine, just not thru the website
This one?
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/Ex2NB7JsLyA
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Wouldn’t it have been amazing if you linked to the same video again to troll everyone, and I comment to confirm that it is the right video while the whole time it is not?
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Imagine getting Rick rolled by a fucking bot.
And somehow you’re scoring downvotes.
Are the bots offended and downvoting now?
I watched two ads just to get rickrolled.
It still shocks me every time I encounter people browsing the internet without an ad blocker. Just why?
Yeah I got rickrolled right away.
How would my mom go about easily blocking YouTube ads on her iPhone?
She wouldn’t, that’s why she bought an iPhone, because “it just works!”.
So then it really shouldn’t be too shocking for the person I replied to.
im presuming not many mothers who dont understand the difference between an app and a webpage are on lemmy.
Install AdGuard pro and replace YouTube app with a shortcut to open YouTube in Safari. Adblockers can’t block ads in the app but can in Safari.
This is the way.
Get Sync for Lemmy. Never get rickrolled again!
Sync is nice but I’m on ios. Currently using Avelon and it shows link previews, but only for the site.
This comment made my Internet today. 🏆
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.
I exclusively am subscribed to porn accounts, so I find it super weird when right ring idiots show up in my feed.
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.
How do you know those aren’t far-right cats?
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!?
You just accidentally named 3 mastodon instances.
Slap a .moe or .xyz or a .social and you’re federatin baby
Moe moe, kyun~
Sorry, wrong subreddit, err, community.
Xittter with the x using ‘sh’ pronunciation
That’s what happens when you hang out at a Nazi bar…
This comes as no surprise really. I noticed a marked increase in right wing insanity after Elon took over.
That was always the point. He tried to shame Twitter into giving the far-right a credible platform and in the process, accidentally comitted to buying the site.
Everything else has just been him awkwardly trying to minimise his financial losses and hide that he’s actually a dumbfuck.
Is this news to anyone? Elon Musk is a literal Nazi. Every dollar going there supports fascism. I don’t get how you can have such a high profile person who is like “Hey, I’m a Nazi, and I sell Nazi shit!” and still be surprised.
I mean, I get that he’s a dick, but a nazi? Seriously?
Yes. The Nazis are back
What has he done or said that makes him a “nazi”, in your view?
Kinda ironic that you posted this because you couldn’t back up your opinion with even one tweet.
You don’t look at usernames.
As the old saying goes- If you have 10 people and 1 nazi sitting at a dinner table and willingly eating together, you have 11 Nazis.
He sits at his Twitter dinner table with a lot of Nazis and is absolutely willing to do so.
Does this line of thinking apply to all the other groups also on twitter?
That they’re also associating with Nazis? Yes. They need to stop.
Funny. I meant, does this also mean Musk agrees with every single viewpoint expressed on the platform, because he allows their presence?
He’s not a Nazi, just someone who allows Nazis on his website, reposts and agrees with their beliefs.
So, because he’s not actively censoring their views, that means he agrees with them?
Hmm.
Did you miss the part where he reposts them to signify agreement?
Which posts are these?
- Buy unprofitable application
- Make a series of incredibly shit business decisions
- It’s now less profitable than before.
- ???
- ???
- Profit
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.)
Last step is selling it to yahoo!
Nah, it’s selling to Yahoo, then getting your parent company acquired by Verizon, then having Verizon spin your parent company off again.
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”
But but but there were good people on both sides Disney!
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.
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.
Are there legal implications for this? Is X guilty of misrepresentation or any such related case.
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.
